'Blog' word of the year (yawn)

It took the BBC a day to catch up with a story I read a dozen times on my RSS feeds: that 'blog' has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster. Personally I think 'cicada', coming in at no.6, is far more interesting, while 'chav' for me still wins the battle in the UK, as defined by the publishers of the Oxford Dictionary.