that none of my contemporaries all over the internet pointed me to William Safire’s interview of Jesse Sheidlower, wherein the origin of the words “weblog” and “blog” are discussed, and that it took an email from my dad to alert me to it.
Click that link, and head to 36:40. [UPDATE: It seems that they allow access to the full show only on the day following broadcast. You can now only see a three minute preview of the show, or pay $0.99 for the full show.]
