how is a word born? blogloading has risen out of a need. a need for anonymity through secret language. no longer do we need to sift through links to blogs that have been deleted for terms violations. google has long been a tool for piracy, but this recent phenomenon of "blogloading" reveals subtleties in the nature of information and how we obtain it. searching for an album or film concatenated with the word 'download' in the string often returns search results that lead to dead end sites asking for credit card numbers or links to 'legal' downloads. however, with the rise of blogloading, we see that language can be a powerful tool to rescue what had previously been ours: free information. once upon a time, the word 'download' was not synonymous with 'piracy', but now the meaning of 'download' has been injected with connotations that have obscured the flow of information. it will be interesting to see how 'blogloading' and other internet neologisms shape the flow of information and provide insight into how we use the internet.

Content Management Powered by CuteNews