Bloggers publish books, and continue to work on the English language

Here's a look around the blogosphere. We're publishing books and inventing the English language as we go along! Not too bad for a roving band of 112 million or so people tapping away at keyboards.

I was amused to read the story on Susan Dennis' blog about the development of a new word while she worked at IBM. "Festuche" is still making the rounds in the English language a couple of decades after it was introduced in White Plains, NY. I'm especially amused that the blogosphere is helping people discover the origin!

Dooce, the blog of Heather Armstrong (known to many as a longtime blogger, particularly for being one of the first people known to lose a job for blog postings; yes, before Ellen Simonetti), chronicles a book project she co-edited, with contributions from other bloggers in this recent entry. With the readership and the high skill level exhibited in blogs (I'm not talking about myself in eithercase), it's natural that bloggers will go on to write and publish books alongside those who wrote and published books first and are now bloggers too.Heather also mentions her nominations for the Bloggies (which I could have voted on had I realized the deadline, oops). Note that she qualifies for the "lifetime achievement" nomination because she has been blogging since at least 1/1/2003, lol. In any case, I'll be sure to post the results of the Bloggie Awards when they've been announced in March.

Dooce has been nominated alongside widely read blogs that are mostly not associated with an individual, like Lifehacker, Consumerist, and Post Secret. I was also excited to see among the nominees: Smitten Kitchen (which I previously mentioned here), Overheard in New York, and The Sartorialist.

So, in the style of The Animaniacs (see the Youtube video below; note that the Wheel of Morality does have a "Bankrupt" space :D), the morals of this entry are:

-Look out for bloggers' books, and not just in the near future. I'm sure that plenty are out already.
-Look out for the winners of the Bloggie Awards, coming in March.
-You can probably invent words and disseminate them even faster than "festuche" via the blogosphere. :)