Giant Blogging Terms Glossary: Need a Blog Dictionary?

1. greg hartman | 6/06/06  #

“Blog” is short for “web log”–not “Web blog”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

2. shirazi | 6/06/06  #

Big thanks. I have linked this.

3. Amit Agarwal | 6/06/06  #

Some good effort.

When you say Blogoholic - addicted to blogging you mean addicted to reading blogs or writing blogs or both ?

4. rafiq | 6/06/06  #

A blogging acronym we invented for barcamp capetown: tyfyc, “Thank You For Your Comment”

5. ming2.0 | 6/06/06  #

blammer = blog spammer

6. maxpower | 6/06/06  #

doppleblogger = a content scraping blogger (goes with doppleblog)

And I always wanted to know what ’stub’ refers to.

7. Alpha Binary | 7/06/06  #

The passive form of Digg is Dugg, I think.

8. Jeremiah | 7/06/06  #

Umm… you should probably add post or entry as the individual units that make up a blog. Help educate the MySpace crowd that says: “I wrote a new blog today!” when they really mean to say that they wrote/posted/published a new entry.

9. Sterling Camden | 7/06/06  #

spomments = spam comments

10. jackswastedlife | 8/06/06  #

not to be pointy-headed, but it is a glossary, “photobloging” should be spelled “photoblogging” or better, “photo blogging,” with two g’s.

11. Aidje | 8/06/06  #

I’ve been trying to figure out what “the jump” is for quite a while now (as in “pictures after the jump”), but haven’t had any luck. Any insight on this term would be nice.

12. Dave S | 8/06/06  #

This is totally self serving, but a good addition to your Blogging Software / Clients list is BlogCheese, a free and complete video blogging system. No uploads, downlods or installation required. It’s really perfect for webcam-based video blogging. See examples on the site.

13. snoopdawg | 8/06/06  #

An online dated “dairy”?
I assume you meant “diary”.

14. Alexander | 8/06/06  #

Great page!

I’ve written a blog glossary - or lexicon, if you will - that parallels this one on many levels. I took some time to make the definitions reasonably definitive, to match the rest of the content on WhatIs.com.

Always good to find another lexiblographer out here.

I found your list of blogging tools and services particularly excellent.

15. Edrei | 8/06/06  #

You forgot Troll, which are commenters that post hateful and derogatory comments that attacks the blogger for no reason and in many cases have nothing to do with the post.

Also in my case and I don’t know if it’s valid to add it but “Noodle posts” are what I call blogs that write about their day and are nothing more than just…well..what happened during the day.

16. Hadramie | 8/06/06  #

It would be nice if you list the terms in alphabetical order. I’d like to add another term to the blog lingo - deadblog, which means just that - a blog which has not been updated for ages. Here’s a few more blog terms I coined:

bloghead (from blockhead) - a meaningless blog raving and ranting about no specific topic/subject in particular

blogsome - an awesome blog that is highly addictive and makes you want to read it everyday

17. dandyna | 8/06/06  #

I would add the blogger type: BLOGSTAR: like, you know, Dooce or Matt, or dandyna and Gianluca Neri in Italy

18. Fay Calhoun | 8/06/06  #

Thanks for giving me the option to make my remarks. Your information was truly very helpful to me. Again, thanks.

19. Marius Scurtescu | 8/06/06  #

You should also mention photocast and photofeed

20. jazzle | 9/06/06  #

This list would be better if you used semantic markup:

21. QuickOnlineTips | 10/06/06  #

I thank all the readers for their kind comments and suggestions. I have fixed the errors you have pointed out and added the new terms suggested by you. Thanks for taking the time to proofread this article.

Help make this a comprehensive blogging resource. Keep the comments comming!

22. Ped | 10/06/06  #

The term ‘mongrel ‘has been used to describe a comment which has not been published (rejected) because it is ill formed, ugly, not not relevant or plain stupid.

23. Caso Patologico | 11/06/06  #

Blogstar? Blogloser? Blogni? Bluggle?
The list is so incomplete!!

24. Mael | 12/06/06  #

Thanks, very interesting :))

25. plasebo | 19/06/06  #

tha’s post is very intersting, But what about the guy who read only blogs, What’s is this disease called?

26. f3l | 21/06/06  #

typo: Helful to block

27. Leonid Mamchenkov | 25/06/06  #

It would be nice to have this with some kind of interface for Wordpress plugin (and other systems too), for automatic linking to.

28. infosrama | 29/06/06  #

Nice post about blogging terms, may be it will be useful for noob bloggers out there.

29. Blog Bloke | 18/08/06  #

Just recently a reader asked me to publish a list of blogging terms. Well, by coincidence Quick Online Tips has published “The Giant Blogging Terms Glossary” of blogging abbreviations, acronyms and terms. So rather than reinvent the wheel, why not just click over there and check it out yourself.

30. Doug Karr | 20/08/06  #

Don’t forget ‘clog’ as slang for a Corporate Blog!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clog

Great Job! Alphabetizing would be fantastic.

31. Joanna | 22/08/06  #

Looked for CTR here but couldn’t find it. What is it?

Thanks

32. Laxura | 14/10/06  #

Very good site, greate content !!

33. Unique Valentine | 24/10/06  #

Nice post about blogging terms. It will be very useful for noob bloggers out there.

34. The Moderate | 2/03/07  #

I got one, I’m fairly new… what does h/t mean? Example h/t to so and so for a link?

Huge Thanks? Hat Tip?

just wondering…

Linking to this…

35. curiorsity556 | 30/05/07  #

thank you for your valuable time by putting this on!!
it help me become more confident to blog~

36. Andre | 14/06/07  #

So informative thank you so much

37. Izdelava spletnih strani | 11/07/07  #

Interesting dictionary… some words are quite new to me. Keep up “blogging”

38. Kunal | 13/07/07  #

Thats really a hugh list, thanks.

39. Anton | 14/07/07  #

A superb list, thanks.

40. Jon Pear | 6/08/07  #

Blogolicious

41. Sushi Dating | 11/08/07  #

Thanks a lot for taking some time and making a list about blog terminology. Very enlighting. Man, there are a lot of things about blog and people can even write books about blogging.

42. Thomas | 23/08/07  #

I love the list, thanks.

43. Rose | 24/09/07  #

Great list. I have one for your list.

Flog- A portmanteau of “fake” and “blog”. A blog that’s ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.

44. Custom | 2/10/07  #

“Captcha” - didn’t know. Funny. thanks.

45. Stasigr | 29/10/07  #

Hello, very nice site, keep up good job!
Admin good, very good.

46. Stasigrii | 4/11/07  #

Hello, very nice site, keep up good job!
Admin good, very good.

47. Viktoria | 7/11/07  #

I love the list, keep up the good job, thank you.

48. leo | 23/11/07  #

Blog niche - specialized target blog characterized by a particular interest, topic or subject.

49. Saim | 5/01/08  #

Very nice post.I feel u have written less on Keywords.

50. Saad Baig | 5/01/08  #

Everything at one place.Nice reading for beginners like me.

51. Wf | 6/01/08  #

Hey its a great list.Very nice work.

52. Rodzi at 101stuffs.com | 14/01/08  #

Nice piece. Sweeeettt. Good reference, you never know sth we might get lost in this ‘blogstorm’…

53. mahesh | 16/01/08  #

Thank you for such a gr8t info!

54. Ztej | 21/01/08  #

this is big work, thanks!

55. Webdesigner | 4/02/08  #

Really nice glossary, especially for beginners. Thanks.

56. Rajeev Edmonds from Mint Blogger | 5/02/08  #

This page must be bookmarked by novice bloggers. I particularly liked the “Blog Components” section. It gives the proper understanding of the blog and post structure.

57. kurye | 26/02/08  #

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Moto Kurye

58. Baz | 5/04/08  #

Thought this may amuse wrote it meself

Bloggability - Measurement of any given event or occurrence and its likely hood of appearing in Blogg form

Bloggademic - Heinously flowery, difficult to grasp, niche market ramblings from Bloggers with big brains and too much time on their hands

Bloggality - A recognisable form and content across a number of entries, ” I like his bloggality, don’t you?”
Blogganoia - That unnerving feeling that someone somewhere is Blogging about you
Bloggasm - Tense, exciting Blogg that reaches a crescendo then fades away messily and turns it’s back on you
Bloggazoids - Bloggers of great intellectual capacity but little empathy leading to cases of Blogglag
Bloggbubbo - Any section of Blogg that is cut and paste into any other virtual space by an unknown or known other
Bloggcamp - Any given Blogg entry that has more than its fair share of ! or contains oooooohhhh or ahhhhhhh with far too many a’s or o’s.
Bloggcentric - Any entry that Bloggs about a previous Blogg
Bloggciousness - Knowing you haven’t Blogged for a while and berating yourself for it, “To be in a state of Bloggciousness”
Bloggdeath - The termination of any given Blogg for whatever reason
Bloggderful - Warm glow from a particular good Blogging experience
Bloggdrag - Interminable ongoing Blogg (that may or may not be Bloggular) that always holds out promise for tomorrows entry but never quite delivers
Bloggease - Ability to use these words with others who understand them
Bloggecules - Individual snippets of Blogg that inhabit cyberspace and have never been read by anyone anywhere
Bloggeen - Ramblings of adolescents, often pathetic, usually Blogideous and with no Bloggality. Blogger does not understand Bloggability and is far from a Bloggademic. Bloggsturbation is a given with multiple Bloggasms as a result
Bloggideous - Garish backgrounds, unwanted sounds and other clutter make a Blogg unreadable. “This Blogg is bloggideous”
Bloggily - Incestuous back patting by a group of four or less Bloggers who’s Bloggs are all crap and who also have no friends.
Bloggiotics - The art of interpreting Blogg entries with your own hidden agenda be it conscious or unconscious.
Bloggish - Any sentence with three or more of the words on this list as part of its structure either spoken or written
Bloggites - Any given group of Bloggers in a real location who are aware that they all Blogg but don’t particularly like each other
Bloggittus - The condition that causes you to pester other people to Blogg
Blogglag - The gradual loss of readers through too many Bloggonites written by Bloggazoids who should have kept it Bloggsy
Blogglins - Any given group of Bloggers in a real location who are aware that they all Blogg and who get on famously
Bloggme - to limit the number of words you can use in any given Blogg, the layout is specifically restrained and colour choices limited, akin to the Dogme manifest of filmmaking this activity is supposed to promote creativity and imagination
Bloggnog - Bloggers with a huge ego and no sense of perspective who don’t even get the hint when no one reads
Bloggnoxious - any activity by an individual/organisation/the state designed to curtail Blogging
Bloggodile - A nasty comment (that has real teeth in a slanderous or liable way) directed at anyone. May cause Blognoxiousness to occur.
Bloggoff - Their general response to your incessant mutterings that they should Blogg
Bloggoidance - to not read a Blogg with the deliberate intent of offending someone who expects you to do so
Bloggoids - Any given group of Bloggers in a real location who are unaware that they all Blogg
Bloggonite - a particular tough Blogg entry that no matter how much you try you cant understand a bloody word (See Bloggademic)
Bloggority - Bloggers who aren’t read for the simple reason no one likes him or her
Bloggpiracy - To pass anothers Blogg entry off as your own through the use of Bloggbubbos
Bloggportant - A vital and very important Blogg that can save lives from any war zone or perhaps Slough
Bloggreatric - Bloggers of pensionable age
Bloggsection - The small amount of scrolling that everyone must do to read the last few lines of an entry.
Bloggsplit - An argument between two or more Bloggers
Bloggsprog - A website born from a Blogg that has a small but cultish following
Bloggster - A reader who reads many Bloggs, never comments and has no Bloggs himself
Bloggstump - an unfinished entry that only last minutes as being unfinished, because the Blogger was distracted. In this fleeting time at least one other has viewed the entry and entirely misinterpreted the meaning. (See Bloggiotics) Bloggstumps are rare
Bloggsturbation - Far too much Bloggcentric behaviour
Bloggswift - Short entry that is designed to avoid a Bloggvoid and give the false impression of attaining Bloggular status
Bloggswot - To over analyse any given entry
Bloggsy - Simply written, easily understand much appreciated brain fart candy from any given Blogger
Bloggtroversial - Any passion inflaming Blogg that upsets at least three people
Bloggular -7 days continuous Blogging with a common thread is said to be Bloggular.
Bloggularity - Knowing the address of any given Blogg off by heart
Bloggulation - To cut off a Bloggers oxygen by not responding to any post or comment he makes is to carry out the act of Bloggulation. Also know as being sent to Bloggoventry
Bloggvestite - A mans Blogg thats too pretty or a womans Blogg that is too butch
Bloggvoid - any single Blogg period of 24 hrs with no entry at all
Bloggxtra - A piece of Blogg so good it requires e-mails to be sent to remind all those friends who promised to keep up with yer Blogg to please do so
Blogplop - Any word in any Blogg that is misspelled but makes another word which cause the whole Blogg to be laughable, these often become Bloggbubbos
Blogsecution - Anonymous and nasty comments from a Blogtwit
Blogtwit - Stupid individuals who judge Bloggers purely on what they say and never get to know them before launching a text assault, most usually anonymous
Blogwobbler - Tirade written when drunk or pissed that is later regretted and deleted by the Blogger who is praying it hasn’t become a Bloggbubbo

59. Web 2.0 & Usability Blog | 14/04/08  #

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60. çiçek | 17/04/08  #

Always good to find another lexiblographer out here.

I found your list of blogging tools and services particularly excellent.