Blogs? Sure. Why not?
If you are sailing, one of the things you would want to know is how fast you are going. To find that out, you might toss overboard a “thin quadrant of wood, loaded so as to float upright and fastened to a line wound on a wheel.” The definitions in quotation marks were provided by the Oxford English Dictionary.
This thin quadrant of wood is called a “log.” Or is, in any case, referred to as a log when it is used in this way. Finding out just what the ship is doing by “throwing the log” enables the sailor to “calculate his way” by the log.
The conclusions you draw about the ship’s current performance are recorded on a log-board or log-slate. These are rough and ready records, being made on hinged pieces of board or slate. These are then transcribed into the log-book “along with any other circumstance deserving notice.” The log-book is called “the log.”
There is no mystery about “web,” certainly. Not since Charlotte. The nodes secure the strands, which connect with each other. This is a very helpful arrangement for a spider looking for a meal or, by analogy, for anyone who wants to use those connections to provide or receive information.
Blog is created by the assimilation of the b- in “web” to the l- in “log,” so that what was once web log, becomes “blog.” This is the process by which “a nuncle” became “an uncle,” so it is not really unfamiliar.
