Blogalism

I’ve been away for quite a while, flouting the true meaning of the “Blog”—insofar as the “log” part of the “web log” whence the coinage harks back to the nautical logs of the high seas, defined, according to Webster’s dictionary, as:

. . .a book in which is entered the daily progress of a ship at sea, as indicated by the log, with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage.

Daily progress. I have been remiss in my daily blog obligations—my “blogligations”—and I will likely continue to be remiss; though I will try my best not to let whole months of darkness go by without at least a little light here and there.

For, the unavoidable Globalism that makes the world turn as much as its revolutions relative to the Sun cause and renew the daily phenomenon, is increasingly expressed, replicated and synergistically augmented through that paradoxically parallel reality called virtual, through which atomized individuals around the globe reconnect in a kind of pan-global Blogalism.

Playfully pursuing the coinage, a “ship log” (both on the high seas and reverberating in our memory in William Shatner’s voice-overs charting the progress of the U.S.S. Enterprise) would be a Plog.

The registry of the use of a vacuum cleaner bag, meanwhile, would be a Glog—or perhaps more appropriate for that would be the record of Christmas punch consumed, in glugs, no doubt: a Nog Log.

And an online journal devoted to futuristic jazz, of course, would be a Zlog.