What do you call all these bloggers?
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Years ago, a book titled An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton had a wonderful time with old and new collective words (“a clutch of vampires,” “a lot of used car salesmen”). I’ve forgotten whether “a scribble of journalists” was from that book. In any case, it’s fun to see bloggers trying the same game.
My first ideas were “babel” (suggesting a confusing tower of mixed voices, not the more negative “babble”) and “boggle,” my state of mind after too many hours at the keyboard.
Then I thought of William James’s phrase about the “bloomin,’ buzzin’
confusion” of things… and decided that in the blogworld, any of those
three words fit. On a good day, you might face a bloom of bloggers…
on an average day, a buzz. But beware the babel and boggle!
