# Speculative Etymology I

Originally published: 2012-10-21
Canonical URL: /2012/Oct/speculative-etymology-i/

In the future (to say nothing of large swathes of the present), creative people work for status and attention rather than money. When X is employed by Y, X is said to be "on Y's blogroll" (coined in analogy to [payroll](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/payroll)).