That's right. The word defining 2004 to Webster's Dictionary is blog.

Blog n A Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.

I can understand how it earned such a prestigious honor. Blogs have become much more common place in the past year, and they're not just for Internet geeks and teenagers any more. They've become a key source of news distribution and political debate. And to think two years ago I didn't even know what a blog was.

The blog Herald purporting to deliver "more blog news more often" claims that Webster's dictionary definition of the word blog is out-of-date. Instead they offer the following:

“A Blog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, underpinned with a content delivery system which provides the ability to deliver content frequently and with little skill, which builds meaningful social connections or virtual communities on any and all subject matters.”

I'm not sure if that's a clearer, more understandable definition... but it certainly is longer.