You Say Glob, I Say Blog

I wonder about words. If Yahoo and Google knew they'd become household staples would they have chosen different names. The same question goes for Staples, and Target, and Piggly Wiggly.
There's something called a portmanteau, which is a specific type of combining of two words into one new one (which is technically different than a simple blend of two words into one). And that's the key to getting the word "blog."

According to Wikipedia "The term 'weblog' was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997. The short form, 'blog,' was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999. This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb ('to blog,' meaning 'to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog').

In an alternative universe the Internet might have been called the world wide weg. And a journal might have been called a lob rather than a log. In that case Merholz might have written in his side bar "we glob*," and thus the noun and verb glob would have become household words. In any case I just raised a small amount of charity, hopefully, by meeting Adar inspired criterion set by bloggers Princess D'Tiara and Sweet Rose.

* which in a way would have been smoother because glob was already a word.