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blog | data |

As nouns the difference between blog and data

is that blog is (dated|fandom slang|originally|nonce|jocular) a cocktail or punch served at science fiction conventions ingredients vary for different conventions while data is (time) date.

blog

English

Etymology 1

Shortened form of weblog . The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined May 23, 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of the online magazine "Tasty Bits from the Technology Front" which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz who put the following on his web site'>citation

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.) Entries typically appear in reverse chronological order.
    • Derived terms
    * blahg * blogebrity * blogette * bloggable * blogger * blogoholic * blogophile * blogorrhea * blogosphere * blogworthy * microblog * photoblog * splog * unblogged * vlog

    Verb

    (blogg)
  • (blogging) To contribute to a blog.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (blogg)
  • (British, slang) To blag, to steal something; To acquire something illegally.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dated, fandom slang, jocular)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1960 , year_published = 2006-07-19 , author = Rich Brown & Paul Stanbery , title = The Golden Halls of Mirth , url = http://efanzines.com/GoldenHalls/ , passage = The earliest form we know about composed before Rhysling was blinded, at some drinking bout, and the verses concerned what he would do at the SoLaCon I—if he could find enough blog , a mimeo, and a few willing femmefans. }}
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1994 , monthday = June 07 , author = David E Romm , email = , title = Re: To Ghost or Not To Ghost... , id = 71443.1447-070694144409@dialup-3-152.gw.umn.edu , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/3nel8QI62Eg/3UR5JVN-I7AJ }}
    The closest we came to that was not serving alcohol in the consuite one year. That was a significant success for it's main purpose. We actually came up with a definition of a fan, albeit a partial one phrased in the negative: Anyone who comes to Minicon just because there's free beer in the consuite is not a fan. That year there was more alcohol and more kinds* of alcohol than at any Minicon before or since; all the real fans who liked to drink brought their own and shared. The policy mainly discouraged the jerks who liked to hang out at the consuite and hit on the women. We did that for one year and happily went back to serving beer and blog .
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1995 , monthday = September 04 , author = Lindsay Crawford , email = , title = Re: Intersection , id = 9509042250393785@emerald.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = http://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/W1tXZOtnmwA/vXf06yi6u_MJ }}
    I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog , thank you.

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    data

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (electronics)

    Noun

    (wikipedia data) (-) or plural noun
  • English plurals: Pieces of information.
  • (uncountable, collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.
  • (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.

    • Usage notes

    * This word is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. * The definition of data'' in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary] and is meant to distinguish ''data'' from ''information . However, this distinction is largely ignored by the computing profession.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/1/Cm1My.pdf

    Derived terms

    * big data * databank * database * datasheet * data acquisition * data analysis * data domain * data element * data entry * data farming * data hiding * data integrity * data maintenance * data management * data mining * data modeling * data path, datapath * data processing * data recovery * data set * data sink * data source * data warehouse * metadata * primary data * raw data

    References

    * (The American Heritage Dictionary's usage note on 'data') * Calpundit: YOU SAY DAY-TA, I SAY DAA-TA * John Quiggin: Data is not the plural of datum * johnaugust.com: ‘Data’ is singular

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