What's the word?

Blog is the word.

It is worthy of note that the most looked up word of the year was "blog". These online journals will surely have an effect on literacy, knowledge and perceptions of a great deal of people. My greatest hope would be that it allows for a more polite, humane and enlightened culture.


Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2004 (http://www.m-w.com/)

Based on online lookups, the #1 Word of the Year for 2004 was
Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.

Other words in the Top Ten List for their definitions in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. hurricane
6. cicada
7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race
8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration