1.19.2002

A Few Blogisms

Some of these are already in use, the others ought to be.
  • Imblogster - someone who pretends to be someone else on their blog.
  • Blogaholic - anyone who is addicted to reading and writing blogs. Anyone who updates more than 5 times a day.
  • Lifer - a blogger who has no life outside of blogging.
  • Bloghopping - following links from blog to blog.
  • Gone Fishin' - actively looking for blogs to link to.
  • Blogadocio - arrogant self-confidence in one's blog.
  • Imbloglio - an entanglement or scandal related to blogging.
  • Party - a bunch of blogs that all link to one another, as in ("an A-list party", or, "that whole socialist party".)
  • Red-Lighting - using a lascivious name or description to generate hits for an otherwise average blog.
  • Ping-pong - a conversation across two or more blogs; bouncing memes back and forth.
  • Checkers - an argument (friendly or otherwise) between two blogs.
  • Chinese Checkers - an argument between three or more blogs.
  • Comment-blogging - using a comment system to the degree that it becomes a blog of it's own.
  • At bloggerheads with - fighting against useless software, unfriendly servers, or anything else that's expressed primarily in zeros and ones.
  • Service - anything free for your blog. Comments, counters, illustrations.
  • Blogism - a coined or adapted term relating to weblogs, such as all of the above.

Yes, this is all original material... I am not plagiarblogging!.