The 'b' in 'blog' stands for 'web'. If you're gonna throw that away, Marcus Aurelius' "Medititations" or Abu Ali ibn al-Banna's diary is probably going to take the title.
Bonus points? I was gonna say, "can we please stop naming products after historical figures that have nothing to do with them?"
> But Montaigne was a blogger!
Oh, come on.
Looking forward to the "Wolfgang Pauli" generation of GPUs -- the "Charles Batchelor," a smoothie machine and food processor named after Edison's assistant -- and the "McNamara" logistics and CRM suite.
(In all seriousness, it's especially bad when the namesake is still alive, e.g. the "Penrose" that was discussed here a little while ago. Montaigne is long dead, so whatever is in OP hasn't stooped quite so low, but it's latching on to a very stale trend.)
I wrote a master’s thesis on Montaigne (specifically on a publishing system for his Essais) and I think it’s a decently topical name. The Essais really were more like blog posts than like what we now call an essay.
Have you read Montaigne? Not only did he have an informal thinking-out-loud blogger style, but he did his best to "hyperlink" given the obvious limitations of 16th century technology.
FR: > Comme quelqu'un pourroit dire de moy que j'ay seulement faict icy un amas de fleurs estrangeres, n'y ayant fourny du mien que le filet à les lier. — ME,SdM
(the late 20th century invention of the search engine has democratised reference by quotation; we no longer must assume that our reader has also already read any quoted works...)
