Blogoscopy
I decided that I needed a new word that would adequately describe my investigation into the blogging phenomenon. Accordingly, I propose the word blogoscopy to mean - a close scrutiny, observation or investigation of phenomena relevant to the blogosphere. Derived from blog - a shortened version of weblog, and blogger - the person who engages in the act of blogging, both of which are components of the blogosphere, and scopy (Greek) -skopi?, from skopein, to see, a suffix meaning - viewing; seeing; observation: as in microscopy.
So… now the methodology section of my thesis should be titled “designing the blogoscopy”.
Additionally, a blogoscope is the instrument used to conduct a blogoscopy.
Roy, the removal of a blog site could be a ‘bloglectomy’
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Ha - good one Scott. That same word could be used when a weblog site is remodelled also.
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