Following the controversy sparked by the launch of The Blooker Prize over who first invented the word "blook," we would like to suggest another new word, which, as far as we know, we can safely claim to have invented: "blookify", a transitive verb meaning to take the contents of a blog or website and render them into a printed or bound book (i.e. blook).
Blookification can take several forms, as demonstrated by the wide variety of blooks already entered in The Blooker, but sometimes it's as straightforward as converting the contents of a blog directly to a blook. Case in point: small business owner Warren Meyer, who recently turned the first year of his Coyote Blog into a blook (well, two blooks to be specific). In this post he describes the process in detail - a lengthy process to be sure, but one that has become increasingly easier with the advent of self-publishing services like Lulu.com. Mr. Meyer hasn't entered The Blooker yet, but he's blookified his blog, and that's the first step.
OK, you got me. Since you used me as an example, I almost have to enter. Sounds like fun.
Posted by: Coyote | November 11, 2005 at 05:30 AM
Hi there! Queen of Sky here... please check out my site BlogBasedBooks.com and also my blog, queenofsky.net for more info. Great contest! I have a blog-based book of my own coming out!
-Q of S (the blog-fired Delta flight attendant)
Posted by: Queen of Sky | November 17, 2005 at 04:50 AM
"blookification" and "blookify" are noble efforts at originality; but from where I stand they are not going to last.
The natural verb to say, irregardless of whether or not there is a dispute over the word, it "to blook". The excess sylables are silly - which means some folks will naturally enjoy saying them and others wont.
Language is like water, it seeks the lowest lying, quickest path.
When a blog is turned into a blook, it is blooked. To publish a blog in blook form is to blook it.
Though I'm afraid "blook" itself seems like a fad, sandwhiched between two sea changes. A blog lives and breathes for itself, and is a bigger thing than the same information bound up in paper that you can take to the beach (though you can't click the links). In comming decades, the blog will be content to stay electronic, when the palm pilots feel more like books.
Posted by: Eric Klein | March 21, 2006 at 12:58 AM
I can't help it -- I'm looking into blooking and in reading Eric's post above felt the need to say....
Irregardless is not a word. It is regardless.
Said with a smile and hopes of at least one more person in the world not making that all-too-common mistake. Cheers!
Posted by: Holly | June 03, 2006 at 03:34 PM