Today, I'm making it hard on my editors because they're going to have to be extra careful editing my column. The Associated Press on April 16 tweeted that it would be changing its Stylebook entry from "Web site" to "website."

It's about time. About a decade ago, I changed my own writings to accommodate the AP style used by the Post-Gazette. Up until that time, I used "Website," capitalizing it as if it were a proper name, but writing it as a single word. Several years earlier I had chosen "Website" because it was better for my nationally syndicated radio show. It allowed me to broadcast a weekly feature called "Website of the Week," which was also known as WOW. It just wouldn't roll off the tongue as easily if it was WSOW. Nor would it have had the cool emphatic tone I wanted. So I used "Website" consistently and often -- until I started writing my column, at which point, my WOW became unusable -- at least in a major metropolitan newspaper.

It became difficult to go back and forth between "Web site" and "Website," so as time went on, I gave in to the AP Stylebook. It was the right decision, even though I felt a single word still made more sense. At least "Web site" was better than "home page," which was (and is still) even more misunderstood

It got to the point that I started using "StartPage" (with two capital letters in a single word) to denote the page that many people consider the home page. Microsoft, though, used "Start Page" to describe the first page you see when you open the browser. In recent versions of Internet Explorer, it's called your home page, making it even more confusing -- because that means you click the home button (or Alt+M) to bring that page back; you don't necessarily click on the home link on the website.

Now that we know it's website, we have to figure out whether Facebook can be used as a verb -- as in "I'm going to Facebook you." And we're going to have to fall in line by using Twitter as a noun, not a verb. You don't Twitter. You don't send a Twitter, either. You tweet.

More importantly, AP tweets! That's the way the organization announced that "Web site" would henceforth become "website." And it used a shortened Web address, otherwise known as a bit.ly bookmarklet to lead the followers (those who subscribed to AP tweets) to the AP Stylebook from the tweet. Thank goodness I haven't yet heard anybody say, "I'm going to bit.ly that link."

But I might someday soon. And it will probably lead me to write another column that requires an apology. By then, I'll probably tweet a shortened link to a full apology on my website.

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