I’ve noticed myself using the word “content” far too often in my “posts” and it’s suddenly occurred to me that this is not such a good thing. I didn’t write an article, just a post. I didn’t write, even. I blogged. And my writing is nothing significant, just some content. Some filler. In reflection, this is what the words sound like. To an outsider, they don’t reflect well on what we do.

First, content seems to infer that the material is something less than writing itself. That it is not an article. I have to start using the term “writing” in place of “content”

I think that “article” would also be a good replacement for “post”

I am not sure where these trends came from. Did we just get too excited with our new blogging jargon - blog, blogging, bloggers, blogosphere, content, posts, feeds, etc - did we go overboard? At what point do we take ourselves so far out into the jargon to forget what we basically are - journalists.

Let’s redefine the word journalist - a common term, one that is far more referential to what we actually do. I say we claim the words that belong to us, rather than creating words that seem to demean our efforts.

Am I right?

Cross-posted from Blogaholics.