Many new forms of media terms are being made to describe meaning of a PC or the internet each day. I think it is a good thing that more convinences are being made every day such as the word blog and downloading or podcasting. The terms that are came up with for these new inventions are very well put together. I think while they seem like "intellegent" words they also are what people would look at as slang. As time grows, more people are found communicating through slang. I think because it is a more of a slang form it is easier to communicate with people who know little about computers. Instead of having to explain something about the internet or a PC to someone who isn't computer knowledgable, it can be easier understood by using slang. I think the majority of people in the US are better at understanding slang when describing a word than using a misleading, confusing word. Sometimes it is even better understood if you compare a harder word with a slang word. Words are put into short and people just seem to get it better. It really confuses me about this but it has just recently started to happen over the past few years. Of course there has always been slang but more and more people are found shortening their words or finding words to describe meaning of something that may be complicating. More people would understand what a blog was before they would know what a web log was. I am sure that if no one made the word blog to replace web log than everyone would be alright with the meaning of web log but shorter words that seem to "fit" with the meaning of the definition seem to be discovered. The world today is becoming more intellegent than ever before so maybe with the use of these new media terms, it really isn't making life so much less intellegent. I know many more people from a younger generation than people such as my parents' ages are more knowledgable with computers. But it doesn't neccasarily mean they are smarter than their elders. Making slang for more words kind of in my opinion makes people lazier. The computer and all the other conviences does make life a little more easier but laziness comes with it. I am not sure where I am quite going with this but I do believe that the world is a much different and not so voluntary lifestyle as it use to be because of computers, television, and new inventions being made. And so people start to talk "less" you could say because of these new media slang terms. I think it would be nice to know EXACTLY what you were typing on when using a "blog."