There’s blogs of all sorts, good and awful and in-between, but, by and large, I do think “blogger” is not generally respected as a title, and willingly adopting it–even when one makes money at it (if that still can happen)–does seem of specious logic.

I still don’t know what they hell to call this instead of “blogging.” I’ll probably come up with a post if I ever do.

But as has been noted, writing is writing, and if you’re doing it for the love of it (or just to try to quell the voices in your head), you don’t need a pithy moniker.

Although coming up with one does seem like the sort of task us creative types should be able to do.

@phantomxii,
I’ve actually been involved in flamewars on Usenet! Get Granny Internet her shawl will you?

@Jodi,
When you’re done editing your homepage from the shell with vi (don’t forget to add a hit counter!), you can download the latest Netscape Navigator from their FTP site (takes a few hours over a 28.8 PPP connection), then read some flamewars on Usenet.

@xoxoxoe,

Columnist is good. I call myself a writer even though I do a lot of blogging for pay. It’s still writing, right?

If writers gave up because they didn’t get rich there would be about four of them — Stephen King, JK Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, and David Sedaris.