Biblioblogosphere : A humorous reference to the world of librarian blogging.

Blaudience : The audience, or readership, of a blog.

Blawg: A blog focusing on commentary about the law, generally written by a law professor, law student, or lawyer. A portmanteau of "blog" and "law."

Bleg : A blog entry consisting of a request to the readers, such as for information or contributions. A portmanteau of "blog" and "beg". Also called "Lazyweb."

Blistless or B-listless : When a blogger becomes listless or apathetic about posting. It is also indicative of what will happen to the blogger's mailing list.

Bloggies : One of the most popular blog awards.

Blog Farm : A website constructed from a group of linked weblogs, typically with the main blog aggregating the total content/acting as a gateway.

Bloglet : A short blog entry or a series of random thoughts in a single blog entry. A style of blogging made popular by the 1 Happy St. blog.

Blogoneer : A portmanteau of "blog" and "pioneer", meaning a person who blogs with an expert or pioneering attitude.

Blogorrhea : A portmanteau of "blog" and "logorrhea", meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.

Blogsnob : A person who refuses to respond to comments on their blog from people outside their circle of friends.

Blogstorm : When a large amount of activity, information and opinion erupts around a particular subject or controversy in the blogosphere, it is sometimes called a blogstorm or blog swarm.

Blogstream : A play on the term mainstream that references the alternative news and information network growing up around weblogs and user driven content mechanisms. Can also be used as a play on the phrase "thought-stream", referring to the stream of consciousness as expressed through a weblog.

Bloll : A troll who specialises in blogs. A portmanteau of "blog" and "troll."

Blooger : A blogger who exhibits adolescent tendencies and lacks basic social graces or good manners. A portmanteau of "blog" and "booger."

Boreblogging : Writing about personal matters that are barely interesting even to the writer -- preferably in a slightly bent fashion so as to make it fun to read in spite of the subject matter.


Catblogging : (traditionally "Friday catblogging") is the practice of posting pictures of cats, in typical cat postures and expressions, on a blog. Sometimes a comment on the cat or the situation shown is provided. Cats had been on web pages already, but "catblogging" as a distinct and defined practice originated on Calpundit by Kevin Drum. He also established Friday as the canonical catblogging day.

Celeblog : A blog detailing the lives of movie stars, musicians, and other celebrities, much like tabloid magazines. They often feature embarrassing or revealing paparazzi photos.


Flog: A portmanteau of "fake" and "blog". A blog that's ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.


Glog : A first-person recording of an activity, in which the person doing the recording is a participant in the activity.

GBCW: The "Good Bye Cruel World" diary is when a Kossack decides that Daily Kos has become too (fill in the blank) or isn't nearly (fill in the blank) enough for him or her to continue visiting the site. General chaos ensues in the Comments as other Kossacks agree, disagree, and wish the diarist good luck or good riddance.

Gulog: A portmanteau of "gulag" and "blog". Used when a blog is so dismal and depressing, it's as if it were written in a Soviet labour camp.


Kos Kid : A term for any one who posts, or reads regularly, the blog Daily Kos. Also known as "Kwazy Kos Kids" after the eccentric nature of some of the members.


Milblog : Term for blogs written by members or veterans of any branch of service - Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines. A contraction of military and blog.

Moblog : A portmanteau of "mobile" and "blog". A blog featuring posts sent mainly by mobile phone, using SMS or MMS messages. They are often photoblogs.

Momosphere: Term to encompass blogs written by mothers. A portmanteau of "mom" and "blogosphere".

Multi-blog : Creating, maintaining, and running multiple blogs (2 or more) simultaneously.

Multi-blogger : An individual, business, or institution that runs multiple blogs.


Plog : Political blog - blog containing mainly politically-oriented material.

Scribosphere : Term to encompass blogs written by professional and aspiring screenwriters. A portmanteau of "scribe" and "blogosphere".

Shocklog : Weblogs to produce shocking discussions by posting various shocking content.

Slashdotted : The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or other website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also Digg, Metafilter, Boing Boing, Instapundit and others) sending huge amounts of temporary traffic that often slow down the server.

Vorage : A marriage between the words forage and video defined as "The act of foraging for video on the internet and sharing it with others." Bloggers or vloggers who share streaming or downloaded video content on the web often engage in voraging, scouring search engines and obscure websites to present a curated collection of videos that usually fall within a set theme or editorial perspective.

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