Great playing plays the right notes, but it also plays what connects those notes, what gives those notes meaning. - Ralph Kirkpatrick
2005, March 31
log to log to blog
How did the word for a big chunk of a trunk of a tree become the word for a journal?
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A log of wood was fastened to a log line, dropped in the water and run out from a log reel on the deck of a ship. The log line was knotted at specified intervals. When the line was reeled after a specified length of time, the number of knots measured the rate of the ship's speed.
The book in which this information was written was called the log, and became a record of the ship's progress, then became the full nautical record of the journey.
And now these journals are published on the web, becoming web logs or blogs.
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