"Blog" must be one of the ugliest words ever to have come into being. While a natural shortening of "web log", the lazy folks who coined the term had no sense of linguistic esthetics whatsoever. Turning it from a noun ("Do you have a blog?") to a verb ("Do you blog?"), only makes it worse. "Blog" is the name of an extremely fat and ineffectual goblin. It certainly isn't something you'd want to keep in your own home, or an activity you'd willingly undertake.