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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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“plog” co-opted by CIO magazine

May 17th, 2004



Slashdot is currently carrying a story about
‘project weblogs’
as described in CIO Magazine as
“plogs”. I thought the word “plog” sounded cute when I used it to
describe my stripped-down, Palm- and phone-friendly
weblogging app
, but to see it used not as a product name but as a
neologism (ill-conceived of “project log”, apparently) gives the word a
bitter, Diet Coke sort of taste. Blech.
(Update: a Slashdot reader notes
some prior uses of the word
.)

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