[Publib] Biblioblogosphere

[K.G. Schneider]

Great story Miriam! I will say I don't have any concern about mis/non
attribution... it's a cool thing when a word develops a life of its
own... but I did want to lay claim to the term :-)

Karen S. 

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:05:23 -0700, "Miriam Bobkoff"
<mbobkoff at cybermesa.com> said:
> Karen wrote:
> 
> >For the record, I invented this word. (I did not invent the Internet.
> >But I did invent this word, on February 10, 2004:
> >http://freerangelibrarian.com/2004/02/10/blogging-about-blogsource-blogging-catch-the-fever/ 
> >.) Now you have given me an excuse to discuss it!
> [snip]
> >I also invented MPOW -- an acronym that means My Place Of Work, and
> >shows up in a couple of acronyym-finders as well as on many blogs --
> 
> Ah, this list has a family history of its list-moms not getting credit
> for 
> their creations. Our founding mother, Jean Armour Polly, invented the 
> phrase "surfing the Internet" in 1992. Only in libraryland is this known.
> 
> I can still see clearly in my memory the graphic on the first page of
> that 
> article in the June 1992 Wilson Library Bulletin. I went off to the State 
> Library with a copy of that article in hand, begged my way onto their 
> internet--connected machine. Then went back to MPOW  :-)  and produced
> the 
> first of many memos which said, "We gotta get there, we gotta get there."
> 
> Wish I still had that xerox.
> 
> Miriam B.
> presently Librarian for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
> in Port Angeles
> 
> 
> At 07:06 AM 4/14/2008 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:30:25 -0700 (PDT), "Joe Schallan"
> ><jschallan at yahoo.com> said:
> > > This is an actual word used in the American Libraries
> > > Breaking News story, "Librarians' Outcry Returns
> > > 'Abortion' to Federal Health Database."
> >
> >For the record, I invented this word. (I did not invent the Internet.
> >But I did invent this word, on February 10, 2004:
> >http://freerangelibrarian.com/2004/02/10/blogging-about-blogsource-blogging-catch-the-fever/
> >.) Now you have given me an excuse to discuss it!
> >
> >"Biblioblogosphere" is not a favorite with everyone, but it has become
> >popular; a quick Google search shows over 17,000 uses of
> >"biblioblogosphere" (and even *I* am not that prolific).  I'm pleased to
> >see our equivalent of the Grey Lady (or is that Gray Lady? Oh never
> >mind) pick up a term I had developed with tongue firmly in cheek.
> >"Biblioblogosphere" may be very long, but it is euphonic, and has
> >semantic strength. "Biblio" (a Greek term) is a common prefix evoking
> >libraries, while "blogosphere" is already well-established in the
> >lexicon.
> >
> >The length of this term is part of its humor. Its length does suggest
> >German compound nouns. I was stationed in Germany for two years and even
> >lived on the economy, where even something like a bank statement had
> >single words that stretched nearly the entire page.
> >
> >However, the mixed, non-Germanic etymology of the roots of this
> >portmanteau neologism points in other directions. It's more in line with
> >"supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." (I have an entire blog post about
> >the etymology of "biblioblogosphere.")
> >
> >I also invented MPOW -- an acronym that means My Place Of Work, and
> >shows up in a couple of acronyym-finders as well as on many blogs -- and
> >two terms I believe only I use: beerdorphins and cocoadorphins (as in,
> >"I am feeling puny, but a nice dark chocolate bar could really  boost my
> >cocoadorphins").
> >
> >Maybe now that American Libraries has used it, "biblioblogosphere" might
> >go in the dictionary?
> >
> >Oh, and BIG KUDOS to the librarians who inspired the article American
> >Libraries wrote -- when it comes to censorship, don't mess with
> >librarians! (I blogged about them, too... for every action, there is an
> >equal and opposite blog post...)
> >
> >K.G. Schneider
> >kgs at freerangelibrarian.com
> >
> >
> >
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