Seinfeld and Merholz Agree
by Dan HarrelsonDan noticed that on the Nov 1 episode of The Daily Show, Jerry Seinfeld brought the term “blog” to task.
“Is that the worst new word of the culture, blog? It’s so unattractive. It’s like something that you spit up and its, it has like, it congeals, and is, you know, and you kick dirt on it.”
- Jerry Seinfeld
Peter, who coined the term back in 1998 agrees with Jerry:
“I like that it’s roughly onomatopoeic of vomiting. These sites (mine included!) tend to be a kind of information upchucking.”
- Peter Merholz, August 30, 1999, email to Keith Dawson
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November 7th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Great show. The timestamp for the quote is 6:59, but really, you oughtta watch the whole thing.
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