Escribitionist

This entry dated 4.4.2008. Heh

Today we see a new wave in Malaysian blogsphere.  Those people who  was  enemy of blogger are now blogger themselves. Those they did not have any other design concept, just copycat typical blogger. Having a blog is good, but its better for themselves having full-featured website (which of course include blog).

I like to running away from typical blogger definition. Although this is a weblog, I prefer this space as my personal belonging that I let go for public showing.  Here, I’m a escribitionist. I bump to his word, about two years ago, when reading about blog. Well, as this is my personal space, it would be informal, with sometime a mixture of rational and irrational though and emotion. Rojak.

From Wikipedia:

An escribitionist is a person who keeps a diary or journal via electronic means, and in particular, publishes their entries on the world wide web. The word was coined in June 1999 by Erin Venema, an online diarist, in the course of a discussion on a mailing list for web journalers. At issue was how to distinguish web journal authors from keepers of traditional paper-and-ink diaries.

The word comes from a combination of the English word “exhibitionist” and the Spanish word “escribir,” meaning “to write.” (The latter is cognate to the English “scribe“; both come from the Latin scribere.) It also evokes the marketing gimmick of using the letter “e” as a prefix to imply a link to technology and electronics, although that was not intended.

Coined before the widespread use of weblogs, the word escribitionist is often used to distinguish diary keepers on the web from weblog authors, whose writing often involve far more diverse styles, perspectives and subjects than those used in personal journals. While a weblog author may engage in journaling, or reporting, or political commentary, an escribitionist is focused on personal experiences and reflection.