October 25, 2007

Terms Bloggers Use

  1. Biblioblogosphere - The community of library and librarian blogs is known as the biblioblogosphere
  2. Blaudience – Short for Blog Audience. A blaudience is the audience or readers of a blog.
  3. Blistless or B-listless - When a blogger loses interest and becomes listless or apathetic about posting. See Blogathy
  4. Blog mute - Someone who seldom puts up a blog posting.
  5. Blogathy – Short for blog + apathy. This is someone that does not care about posting today.
  6. Blogger – The author of a blog. Also blogger.com, a popular blog hosting web site.
  7. Blogiverse - see blogosphere
  8. Blogoneer – Short for blog + pioneer. This is a person who blogs with an expert or pioneering attitude.
  9. Blogosphere - All blogs that make up the Internet blogging community. Also called blogistan, blogspace or blogiverse.
  10. Blogsnob – A blogger who refuses to respond to comments from people outside of their circle of friends.
  11. Bloll – Short for blog troll. A Bloll is a commenter whose sole purpose is to attack the views expressed on a blog and incite a flamewar. See Troll.
  12. Blooger – Short for blog + booger. This is a blogger who lacks good manners and acts in an immature adolescent way.
  13. Blurker – Someone who visits and reads many blogs but never leaves any trace such as comments or any contribution to a discussion.
  14. Commenter – Someone who participates in a blog discussion and leaves remarks / comments.
  15. Dooced – To be fired because of comments made by an employee on a personal blog.
  16. Flamewar – An electronic insult match with repeated abusive and insulting email or blog exchanges.
  17. Multi-blogger - An individual or business that runs multiple blogs.
  18. Problogger – This is a professional blogger who gets paid to blog.
  19. Public Voice: the collective voice of individual consumers over the Internet, often influencing consumer behavior.
  20. Scribosphere – The community of blogs written and maintained by screenwriters and aspiring screenwriters.
  21. Troll – Someone with the extreme opposite viewof the theme of the blog who comments in order to attack the views expressed. See Bloll.

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