I’m not a big believer in surveys but there’s definitely something to a recent one conducted by YouGov that found that “blogosphere”, “blog”, “netiquette”, “cookie” and “wiki” were among the most irritating words within the Web.
As much as blogs put food on my family’s table, “blog” is a word that I have mixed emotions about. To be honest, I’d be very happy if “blog” disappeared – and you can take “ecosystem” and “paradigm shift” with it. There has to be a better word than “blog” to describe a communications medium that is so exciting, alive and dynamic. Blog sounds like how you feel after drinking too much, spend too much time stuck in traffic, or not getting enough sleep. 
When you’re at a party and people ask what you do in your spare time, wouldn’t it be great to use a word other than blog? So what would you call a blog other than a blog?
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(Paraphrasing “New Coke”) Bring back the original “weblog”. Wasn’t “blog” just a lazy person’s shortening of weblog? (At least it did not deteriorate to some mindless ancronym!)
I agree Weblog is better than blog.
Blogosphere and synergy two words that make my skin crawl. Why is the mainstream so hung up on buzz words..
well, not to be too much of a dork, but how about latin?
augeovox- from augeo- to enlarge, enrich vox-voice
or
ampliovox- obviouly, to amplify the voice
come to think of it, I doubt either of those would be very popular, because they seem kind of klunky next to something as simple as blog.
As much as we hate it, I think blog is here to stay (at least for a while), it’s very well entrenched in the language (blogging, blogged, blogger, vlog, photolog, etc)
i would say “im in the online publishing industry”
I’ve always felt that pro blogs were like Web magazines. Or vertical media. Or specialized publications. Not sexy words you’ll say, but closer to what people use in the offline world. I’ve always believed that you get better mainstream user adoption if you bridge the offline and the online.