{"id":23,"date":"2003-08-31T01:36:11","date_gmt":"2003-08-31T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2003\/08\/31\/what-do-you-call-all-these-bloggers\/"},"modified":"2003-08-31T01:36:11","modified_gmt":"2003-08-31T05:36:11","slug":"what-do-you-call-all-these-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2003\/08\/31\/what-do-you-call-all-these-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you call all these bloggers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a26'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Years ago, a book titled <i>An Exaltation of Larks<\/i> by James Lipton  had a wonderful time with old and new collective words (&#8220;a <i>clutch<\/i> of vampires,&#8221; &#8220;a <i>lot<\/i> of used car salesmen&#8221;). I&#8217;ve forgotten whether &#8220;a scribble of journalists&#8221; was from that book. In any case, it&#8217;s fun to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/001930.html\">bloggers trying the same game<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\nMy first ideas were &#8220;babel&#8221; (suggesting a confusing tower of mixed voices, <i>not<\/i> the more negative &#8220;babble&#8221;) and &#8220;boggle,&#8221; my state of mind after too many hours at the keyboard. <\/p>\n<p>\nThen I thought of William James&#8217;s phrase about the &#8220;bloomin,&#8217; buzzin&#8217;<br \/>\nconfusion&#8221; of things&#8230; and decided that in the blogworld, any of those<br \/>\nthree words fit. On a good day, you might face a bloom of bloggers&#8230;<br \/>\non an average day, a buzz. But beware the babel and boggle!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/001930.html'>What do you call all these bloggers? &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, a book titled An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton had a wonderful time with old and new collective words (&#8220;a clutch of vampires,&#8221; &#8220;a lot of used car salesmen&#8221;). I&#8217;ve forgotten whether &#8220;a scribble of journalists&#8221; was from that book. In any case, it&#8217;s fun to see bloggers trying the same game. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepnostories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}