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Blogging irony

Can someone please tell me why?

I am working on a post, actually it's a Social Media Glossary that I've been researching using Creative Commons Blogging is not new! materials from around the web. I'm at the SPELL CHECK Stage and guess what the blog software does not recognize certain words.

Here they are:

Bloggers
Blogosphere
Trackback
RSS
Podcasts
aggregator
Flickr
Weblogs
HyperText
CSS
IM
Skype
Username
MicroBlogging
Moblogs
MyBlogLog
FeedDemon
NetNewsWire
Wikipedia
Permalink
Photosharing
Wikis
PDA

Blogging is not new, so why hasn't someone told the spell checker?

Kristal Kraft Broker Associate The Berkshire Group Realtors 3801 E. Florida Ave. Suite 400 Denver, Colorado, 80210 US	Mobile: 303-589-2022 Fax: 303-953-5362 kristal@tbgdenver.com Denver Real Estate and Relocation
Selling Denver and the 'burbs

Kristal Kraft

Broker Associate, ABR, CIPS, CRS, GRI, ePRO, PMN, PNG
TheBerkshire Group, REALTORS
3801 E. Florida Ave., Suite 400
Denver, Colorado 80210
303-589-2022 ~ direct 303-953-5362 ~ fax

Selling Colorado Since 1984, Serving the Following Areas:

Denver Home Search	Highlands Ranch Home Search	Parker Home Search	Englewood Home Search
Littleton Home Search	Search Denver Foreclosures	Greenwood Village Home Search	Relocation to Metro Denver

Posted by Kristal Kraft ~Denver Real Estate~303-589-2022 on 12/28/2008 11:59 AM

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48 Comments on Blogging irony

DEC

Well, some of us do speak a 'different' language! Sort of like talking to a teenager, have you done that lately?

How nice of you to put together a glossary. I'm sure it will be helpful to many.

ROTFL.....one thing nice about most spell-checkers ... at least their "trainable". You've got a great list started, Krystal, to help that learning curve!!

Thanks for the Post Kristal. Spell checker is essential.

There must be a software program available to plug these words into so they are recognized.

Thank you for the post.

Kristal -

I was thinking the same thing, but just hit "ignore all" when those words came, without mentioning them to anyone.

Perhaps, in their 2009 edition . . .

Happy New Year!

DEAN & DEAN'S TEAM CHICAGO

Krystal: I am going to guess that all of those words are missed by spell-check because they are not words that have been "recognized" as words, and then accepted by the current edition of the Miriam/Webster dictionary. It makes sense to me. I wonder if that is the reason ?

I think that is funny. Activerain spellchecker does not recognize Activerain.

Many of those are acronyms or proper nouns and rarely have any spell checker ever picked those up. There is also a huge difference between Word and OO Write if you use both of those.

lol, I have noticed that too. AR should add your list to the spell check somehow.

Laughing at Sean and AR spellcheck.

Actually, until the last year or so, I didn't recognize any of those words either. Of course, it is not my job :)

KK,

It's all about the anxiety of posting it fast without thinking the spelling is wrong. Too much emphasis on the content instead of double checking the spelling. The spell chek is broken now anyway:)

Kristal - most programs allow you to ADD words, so that when these appear you can add them, and they'll be recognized the next time around.

Kristal,

Some of those words like "Flickr" don't follow normal spelling rules, but "blog" does. AR still flags blog and blogging as misspelled. :)

Steve

Well, I was just going to say what Steve H just did. I've often wondered why AR doesn't go in and add the key blogging words to the spell checker here.

LOL...how true. Poor spell check...I keep helping it add words but there always seem to be more to add.

I just add the words and once it is added it is not a problem when you post a lot of those words. Actually, you make a good point wonder why the techy's haven't added those words?

KK - do you remember how it was when it first was set up here? Took forever for it to start recognizing BLOG and MLS, among some other obvious ones. Looking forward to the glossary.

Jeff

Dena ~ LOL you are so right! Actually most of the "young" people in my family are under 5. Basically they don't respond well either.

Colleen ~ Glad to hear a Glossary is needed. I'm actually doing it for another site, but I will let everyone here know.

Steven ~ I so agree.

Tony ~ There just might be. I hadn't thought of that!

Dean ~ Ignore all works good too.

Karen ~ OK, Webster is dead! How can we blame it on him? :) just kidding...

Sean ~ Yes, that is pretty funny.

Shane ~ My post was done on WordPress. I think their spellchecker is as bad as Active Rain's.

Patricia ~ I somehow doubt that spell checking on the top of their minds!

Virginia ~ No worries, many of these words didn't exist a few years ago.

Neal ~ I never use the AR spell checker, it doesn't work with Firefox, or at least didn't the last time I tried it. My lament is about the WordPress spell checker. That's what I was working on.

Sharon ~ Good point, I think WordPress must have the "free" version, no frills. I'll have to confirm that to be sure.

Steve ~ Yes, you would think a blog spell checker would recognize itself! :)

Elaine ~ I have no idea! I wonder how difficult or easy it might be? Should we send the gods a memo?

Missy ~ Sorry I didn't mention in the post I was working on the WordPress Platform, not AR.

Jeff ~ Yes, I remember. Actually it was a long time before we even had a spellchecker! Guess a broken one is better than none at all?

DEC

This is just so frustrating, I'm glad you made the list...now we need to get it to "the gods"!

You know that most software spellcheck allows you to correct a word or 'add to dictionary' and we have no feature like that.

I'm never paying too much attention to mispelled words when reading a blog...I know people are in a hurry.

I am still on the page of teh spell check. Trying to catch up.

Let's keep a list...please add Google.

sssshhhhh!....be very, very quiet. The Spell Checker might hear you!

Hi Kristal

We learn something new everyday, thanks for sharing the information.

Good luck and success

Lou Ludwig

Being ahead of the curve in blogging is definitely the right place to be. This was a neat post to see which words are not yet mainstream.

spell check???what's that? LOL..oh it' probably doesn't recognize that either.......

lolol.....Spell checker is a must! You might suggest adding the mainstream acronyms for texting.

Happy Holidays, Kristal.

Shawn

Kristal, Amen to that one! Makes me a tiny bit crazy!

Kristal,

There are some that do not even know what the spell checker is or how to use it.

Krystal--You'd think at the very least blog wouldn't be considered incorrect...Go figure!

Yeah, what gives with that...so frustrating. Who should this list go to

That is so funny! Definitely needs to be looked into!!!

Congrats on the feature!

I am always amazed by the amount of words that WORD does not recognizes.

Sounds like a project for a real up can coming Daniel or Daniela Webster...

Microblogging - what's that?!? LOL~

You forgot my favorite. The internet.

I'm assuming that your words are all spelled correctly---and will keep this list for reference :-) I hope by the end of 2009 I will also know all the definitions for these words too!

Kristal, I love this blog, even though the spell check says that it is misspelled.

I don't know any of these words.

DEC

Hi Kristal. I have often wondered that myself!! :)

Kristal I wish that spellchecker would get up to web 2.0 as well. My spellchecker always want to make the word internet with a capital "I" but I don't think it is a proper noun.

Kristal - I've commented on this before somewhere - it drives me nuts that the various forms of "blog" are not accepted. I can understand it not accepting words like "Flickr" as it is a company name (although as a test I just checked "Kleenex" and it is considered to be spelled correctly), not a word, but words like "blog" should definitely be covered. Nannette mentioned the capital "I" in internet as well - that one gets me too.

Even more frustrating is continually telling spellcheck to learn new words, and doing it over & over as it doesn't appear to learn anything.

I have noticed the same. I think it might be time for an update:)

This cracks me up...because I agree with you...why aren't these words in spell check! Love the pic! Happy New Years girl!

I with so many more people are with you on the spell checker. When will we see the updates?

JAN

I wonder what is happening to the lexicon sometimes, but change is inevitable. Did you create the collage? Very cool!

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