blog

en-verb

blog (third-person singular simple present blogs, present participle blogging, simple past and past participle blogged)

blogs (present singular third-person)
blogging (participle present)
blogged (participle past)
blogged (past)

Rebracketing of weblog. The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined 23 May 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz. The form blog is now so much more common than weblog that some misspell the latter as webblog, as if from web + blog.

Blogger Anil Dash summed up the initial reaction well when he blogged his assessment of Macromedia's new blogging strategy: […]

2002, Biz Stone, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, Indianapolis: New Riders Pub., →ISBN, page 163:

I hadn’t blogged myself, because I thought I had nothing to say. After 9/11, I did. So I planned to write the blog for a few weeks, until I ran out of memories.

2009, Jeff Jarvis, What would Google do?, New York: HarperLuxe, →ISBN, page 40:

(blogging, transitive, intransitive) To contribute to a blog.


blogger

The New York Times called it “another signal moment for bloggers,” while over at HardwareGeeks.com (“a community for sophisticated geeks and geekettes”), they were flying the victory flag: “A blogger with a White House Press pass? Just another sign of the times and another indication that bloggers are as powerful as regular media.”

2005 March, William Powers, “Sleeping With the Enemy”, in The Atlantic:

(Internet) A contributor to a blog (from weblog) or online journal.


blogosphere

/ˈblɒɡ.əʊˌsfɪɚ/

From blog + -o- + -sphere, possibly under the influence of biosphere, atmosphere, etc.

2004 Air America Radio http://www.airamericaradio.com/
Regular guest and blogger, Kos of DailyKos.com, provides Sam and Janeane the latest information from the blogosphere.

The blogosphere is relentless: It rightfully hammered Eason Jordan and CNN from day one and refuses to stop.

2005 February 11, Lawrence Kudlow, National Review Online:

there's some talk, as you said, on the blogosphere, that this book is controversial, but I think more properly it's a contribution...

2006 October 8, Lee Smolin (interviewee), Steve Paulson (interviewer), To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Future Physics”, Wisconsin Public Radio, program 06-10-08-A, segment 1

(Internet) The totality of blogs, especially the unique jargon, cultures and shared interests created by their interconnection.


blogophile

A person who is fond of blogs or blogging.


photoblog

A type of blog designed primarily to showcase photographs.

photoblog

a type of blog designed primarily to showcase photographs


weblog

From Web + log, coined by Jorn Barger in 1997.

A Weblog is updated as often as the writer decides and can include photographs and links to other sites around the Web. There are different ways to create a Weblog, and you do not need your own file server.

2002 July 25, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Your World, Online: Setting Up a Weblog”, in New York Times:

The case of the Loufan landslide indicates how a mainstream journalist-blogger used his weblog to expose the cover-up of an accident in north-west China.

2011, Xin Xin, “Web 2.0, citizen journalism and social justice in China”, in Graham Meikle, Guy Redden, editors, News Online: Transformations and Continuities, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:

(Internet, dated) A website in the form of an ongoing journal.


blogcast

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bleg

Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)

4 July 2007, Jack Melton, “Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem”, in Sunderland Echo:

#*: Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.

7 November 2007, “Sea Angling latest”, in Sunderland Echo:

The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs.

29 May 2008, “Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up”, in Sunderland Echo:

Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg.

10 December 2010, “Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open”, in Sunderland Echo:

Trisopterus luscus
Trisopterus luscus#Translingual

(Northumbria) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).


bleg

Blend of blog + beg. British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer John Derbyshire claims to have coined the verb in 2002, although earlier usage may have occurred.

coin

I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.

Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?

2008 August 29, Andrew Sullivan, “The Utter Arrogance Of It”, in The Atlantic:

Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.

2010 September 9, James Wolcott, “A Grammar of Motives*”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the original on 2013-01-14:

This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find; […]

2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, acknowledgments section, page 267:

(Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.


bleg

en-verb

bleg (third-person singular simple present blegs, present participle blegging, simple past and past participle blegged)

blegs (present singular third-person)
blegging (participle present)
blegged (participle past)
blegged (past)

That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.

The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.

2008 May 18, “Strange looks and funny lines from the past week”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].

2009 November 30, John J. Miller, “Novels of the Right, cont.”, in National Review Online:

Zimmer had "blegged" (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."

2009 August 7, Curtis Brainard, “It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…”, in Columbia Journalism Review:

Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.

2010 April 15, Iain Murray, “Chicagoan Voting System!”, in National Review Online:

(Internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.


vlog

Blend of video + blog, itself a rebracketing of weblog.

When you create this kind of videoless vlog, where you don't have the video recorded on a camcorder, you have to be more conscious of the story you want to tell.

2006, Stephanie Cottrell Bryant, Videoblogging for Dummies, page 83:

(Internet) A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.


blahg

(Internet slang, derogatory) A dull, uninteresting weblog.


weblogging

(computing) The design and editing of a weblog; blogging


blogging

(computing) The design and editing of a blog; weblogging.


blidget

Widgetbox also gives you the tools to create your own widgets— either by turning your blog into a "blidget" that others can subscribe to or by coding something unique and adding it to the Widgetbox collection.

2007 October, Robert Strohmeyer, “The 15 Best Web Apps You've Never Heard Of”, in Maximum PC:

In particular, a "blidget" allows users to display a section of their blog on other web sites.

2008 April 30, Diana Ransom, “Starting Up: Small Biz Tech Speak”, in The Wall Street Journal:

Figure 9.22 on Page 235 shows the finished blidget for Social Media Power. Widgetbox blidgets like the one we just created are free, but they also offer a pro version for around $30 a year that allows you to design custom themes for you blidget, among other features.

2009, Deltina Hay, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web, Dalton Publishing, →ISBN, page 236:

(slang, Internet) In the context of blogging, a widget featuring a blog feed, which can be installed on another blog or website.


moblog

A weblog posted from a mobile device, such as a cell phone or PDA.


splog

The “b” in these words is all that remains from its ancestor, Berners-Lee’s Web, and even that slim vestige can be lost when blog blends with other words, as in vlog (a video blog) and splog (a spam blog).

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(Internet) A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam.


live blog

live blog (third-person singular simple present live blogs, present participle live blogging, simple past and past participle live blogged)

live blogs (present singular third-person)
live blogging (participle present)
live blogged (participle past)
live blogged (past)

I am going to be live blogging the press conference and I will keep you updated on any big news.

(Internet, neologism) To keep track of a current event in real-time online using a blog or other website.


blogroll

Blend of blog + logroll, or as back-formation from blogrolling.

(Internet) A blogger's list of hyperlinks to other blogs that he/she recommends.


wingnutosphere

From wingnut + -o- + -sphere, by analogy with blogosphere.

That was obviously violated today as the New Republic betrayed, once again, that it seeks to destroy the new people-powered movement for the sake of its Lieberman-worshipping neocon owners; that it stands with the National Review and wingnutosphere in their opposition to grassroots Democrats.

2006 June 26, Howard Kurtz, quoting Markos Moulitsas, “Coming Clean”, in The Washington Post:

(US politics, blogging, slang, derogatory) The community of bloggers perceived to be on the political far right.


metablog

metablog (third-person singular simple present metablogs, present participle metablogging, simple past and past participle metablogged)

metablogs (present singular third-person)
metablogging (participle present)
metablogged (participle past)
metablogged (past)


microblogging

A variety of microblogging sites have sprung up.

The writing or publishing of a microblog.


microblog

For Dorsey, creating this community of linked microblogs has been "endearing, because you know what everyone you know is doing" […]

2006 December 10, Richard Rushfield, “It's real time at the same time”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2013-06-30, page E20:

(Internet) A blog on which one posts brief, frequent updates on one's activities.


leftosphere

From left + -o- + -sphere, perhaps by analogy with blogosphere.

I know quite a few [marines in the] USMC, my kid was in Iraq. To the man, none of them fit the "clueless" stereotype that is propogated by the leftosphere.

2006 March 30, "SteveR" (username), "Re: Rumsfeld - Pre-9/11 Thinking", in tx.politics and other newgroups, Usenet

Sure, you mention some of the good things to come out of the leftosphere - what's the most recent "good" thing they have done? Hmm? All you mention is ancient history.

2008 March 4, O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - SWEEPEAT!!!, “Re: I. . . I just couldn't do it!!! :_(”, in alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox (Usenet):

I've read complaints from the leftosphere complaining that there's no soundbite to play in retaliation to the noisebots on Fox.

2008 March 19, Sam Hutcheson, “Re: How to ensure Obama coasts to the Democratic nomination”, in alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves.coffeeshop (Usenet):

When kos sneezes, the rest of the nutroots catch a cold, so [James] Webb should be an acceptable nominee to the entire leftosphere.

2008 December 5, Josh Painter, Team Obama needs your help:

(US) Blogs on the political left, taken collectively.


blogpost

blogpost (third-person singular simple present blogposts, present participle blogposting, simple past and past participle blogposted)

blogposts (present singular third-person)
blogposting (participle present)
blogposted (participle past)
blogposted (past)

(4chan, derogatory) To make a winding, diary-like post.


bloglike

en-adj

bloglike (comparative more bloglike, superlative most bloglike)

more bloglike (comparative)
most bloglike (superlative)

(Internet) Resembling or characteristic of a weblog.


nonblog

Not of or pertaining to a blog (a weblog on the Internet).


blogmaster

From blog + master, modelled on webmaster.

Ms. Marcotte joined the Edwards campaign at the end of January in the new post of blogmaster.

2007 February 7, John M. Broder, “Edwards’s Bloggers Cross the Line, Critic Says”, in New York Times:

(rare, Internet) One who maintains or works on the upkeep of a blog.


Blogistan

From c. 2001 (see quotations), formed from blog + -stan.

Blogistan is a newer coinage, appearing after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. By attacking to blog the suffix -stan, which means "land" or "place of" in Farsi and related languages, the word successfully conveys the idea that blogs in Blogistan are concerned with matters in the Stans, among them Afghanistan and Pakistan.

[2006, Grant Barrett, “Tongue in Groove: The Blogistan Lexicon”, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang:

Blogs of Iran (where the suffix -stan originated) and nearby regions.


reblog

en-verb

reblog (third-person singular simple present reblogs, present participle reblogging, simple past and past participle reblogged)

reblogs (present singular third-person)
reblogging (participle present)
reblogged (participle past)
reblogged (past)

(transitive, Internet) To blog something previously posted on another blog, in particular to share a post on a microblogging platform.

rebloggen

to blog something previously posted on another blog


blogish

en-adj

blogish (comparative more blogish, superlative most blogish)

more blogish (comparative)
most blogish (superlative)

I don't believe in Jesus but I believe in *Jeebus*.. I'm cocreator of a Jeebus group blogish thing and a mailing list/message board.. Jeebus ::dreamy sigh::

2001 August 10, "Verpertilian", “Re: call the roll”, in alt.utensils.spork (Usenet):

I've been trying to launch of print zine for over 18 months now, but it looks like I'll be splitting the projec tup^([sic]) into a ~shudder~ blogish sort of socion political though e-zine and possibly and smaller (by a large scale) retroscifish,early^([sic]) punk/metal, industrial style zine that's part online (downloadable PDF) as well as a^([sic]) ink and paper (with VERY limited print run).

2004 December 5, "AlphaTrionTJW", “Re:Virtual Zine Fest”, in alt.zines (Usenet):

Flikr seems tb more blogish and SmugMug seems tb more professional.

2006 December 31, PeteCresswell, “Best Photo Management Site?”, in rec.photo.digital (Usenet):

Having the characteristics of a blog; resembling a blog


unblogged

Although 99 percent of my life is unblogged, these people think that they know me.

2006, Axel Bruns, Joanne Jacobs, Uses of blogs, page 133:

Company CEOs are outed for participating on message boards with pseudonyms, and it sometimes seems that no bad deed goes unblogged.

2008, Rohit Bhargava, Personality Not Included, page 20:


bloggable

bloggable (comparative more bloggable, superlative most bloggable)

more bloggable (comparative)
most bloggable (superlative)

If you aren't sure whether something is bloggable, ask whether you can blog about it or run it by your boss first.

2008, Susannah Gardner, Shane Birley, Blogging For Dummies, page 64:

You can't always be at your computer to blog — sometimes you're out there living life, and bloggable stuff happens!

2010, Melanie Nelson, Shannon Lowe, TypePad For Dummies, page 306:

Even from the start, the greatest compliment that Carles could pay to a song would be to call it “highly bloggable.”

2012 January 19, Rob Trump, “Watching Hipster Runoff Eat its Own Tail”, in New York:


blogtastic

blogtastic (comparative more blogtastic, superlative most blogtastic)

more blogtastic (comparative)
most blogtastic (superlative)

(informal) excellent, with regards to blogs or blogging.


mommy blogger

...while my sister and I are both old enough for her not to be a baby-cooing mommy blogger, she still misspells 140-character updates on Twitter.

2011, Teresa Wu, Serena Wu, My Mom Is a Fob: Earnest Advice in Broken English from Your Asian-American Mom:

(informal) A mother who blogs about her children, motherhood, parenting or related topics.


placeblog

In the past year, the word Bloglyn has been cropping up a lot, a reflection of the fact that Brooklyn, particularly brownstone Brooklyn, has emerged as possibly the center of the placeblog world.

2007 July 8, Gregory Beyer, “Cracker-Barrel 2.0”, in New York Times:

(Internet, neologism) A blog dealing with the news and daily life of a community, written by its inhabitants.


preblog

In a preblog world it is unlikely that Jack's story would have spread much further than his family and circle of friends. However, Jack's blog provided other people a window into his life...

2007, Mark Tremayne, Blogging, citizenship, and the future of media:

“A killed story used to be pretty much dead unless it got leaked to another newspaper,” Mr. Roderick said of the preblog era of print-based newspapers.

2007 July 30, Andrew Adam Newman, “New Life on the Web for a Killed Newspaper Column”, in New York Times:


bloggy

bloggy (comparative more bloggy, superlative most bloggy)

more bloggy (comparative)
most bloggy (superlative)

You can still be professional, but let your personality seep in. If you're managing the blog, give your blog writer time to develop a bloggy rhythm and writing voice. Either way, gauge the reaction from readers or other bloggers.

2006, Debbie Weil, The corporate blogging book:

It is, dare I say it, too preoccupied with being respectably booky rather than wildly bloggy.

2008 March 23, David Kamp, “Permalinks”, in New York Times:

(informal) Having the characteristics of a blog; resembling a blog.


blogsite

With Drupal, anyone can create their own blogsites, portals, forums, websites, social networking sites, resource directories, etc.

2008, Andrew Haney, Build Websites with Drupal, page 148:

The discussion boards and blogsites became battle sites for supporters and detractors of Chaudhry.

2009, Stewart Firth, Jon Fraenkel, The 2006 military takeover in Fiji: the coup to end all coups?, page 232:

(Internet) A web site whose primary content is a blog.


bloggerati

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That’s why the bloggerati pounced gleefully last week on the news that one of their own had fallen in love with a commoner, er, commenter.

2009 April 5, Jan Hoffman, “Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version”, in New York Times:


blawg

Blend of blog + law. Coined by American lawyer and podcaster Denise Howell.

coined

Keeping a blawg also can be helpful when you update your resume and compose cover letters[…]

2004, American Bar Association, Student lawyer: Volume 33:

If there is a blawg you would like to see added, please feel free to suggest that we add it to the list.

2006, Carole A. Levitt, Mark E. Rosch, The lawyer's guide to fact finding on the Internet, page 738:

The vowel of blog can mutate, as when law blogs are called blawgs or requests via blog posts are called blegs (combining blog and beg).

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(Internet) A weblog dealing with topics related to the law.


blognoscenti

The blognoscenti were quick to note after the Uniform Project site started making the rounds that earlier projects have played with the one-dress idea.

2009 July 12, Rob Walker, “This Year’s Model”, in New York Times:

(informal, neologism) Intelligent, discerning bloggers.


blogdom

All that had to happen was for the forces of IP blogdom to march to Washington and demand IP reform. Why wasn't it happening? It wasn't happening because the blogosphere is only a small part of the story.

2007, Bruce Abramson, The secret circuit, page 278:

[…]Ms. Wilder-Taylor put up a post on her blog, Babyonbored, that has reverberated throughout mommy blogdom[…]

2009 August 16, Jan Hoffman, “A Heroine of Cocktail Moms Sobers Up”, in New York Times:


videoblog

A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.


videoblogger

From video + blogger or videoblog + -er.

(Internet) A contributor to a videoblog.


bloggage

Back to the bloggage!

2005, Jonathan N. Calise, From the Mind of a Pez Dispenser, page 97:

Sorry about my lack of bloggage. Since the last treatment I have been dealing with multiple, persistent side effects which lifted as of this afternoon.

2010, Robin Waites, George's Journey, page 82:


blogebrity

en-noun

blogebrity (countable and uncountable, plural blogebrities)

Given that there are more than 80 million blogs out there, according to the Web-tracking site Technorati, with roughly 15.5 million of them active, "blogebrity" is quite a bizarre phenomenon anyway.

2008, “Introduction”, in Sarah Boxer, editor, Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page xii:

(Internet, informal, uncountable) The state or phenomenon of fame achieved through blogging.


blogworthy

en-adj

blogworthy (comparative blogworthier or more blogworthy, superlative blogworthiest or most blogworthy)

blogworthier (comparative)
more blogworthy (comparative)
blogworthiest (superlative)
most blogworthy (superlative)

This incident was definitely blogworthy; she was already curious about Sparrowhawk's take on it.

2008, Mitali Perkins, First Daughter: White House Rules:

It was a good list, to which she was prepared to add from time to time, but it was the only blogworthy one in her notebook.

Problems for the opposition, particularly scandals involving opposition political figures, are particularly blogworthy.

2009, Richard Davis, Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics:

Worthy of being blogged or blogged about.


tumblelog

From tumble + log, an early term for microblog, coined by Jonathan Gillette in 2005, based on the tagline of Leah Neukirchen's Anarchaia blog (“experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin’”).

For a concrete example, imagine you've created a Tumblelog, which is like a weblog but with many small posts of different types.

2006, Chad Fowler, Rails Recipes, Raleigh, N.C.: Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, page 195:

Tumblr, launched in March, allows users to publish digital files or brief blog posts to a single online location, dubbed a tumblelog.

Twitter and tumblelogs work equally well in this case. However, blogging and longer forms of writing are still important for communicating complex or longer ideas.

2009, Gavin Bell, Building Social Web Applications, page 133:

Sue Weston details her current artwork. “It’s called 'Magpie.’ I stand in Daley Plaza, jotting down the things people say into their cells. Then I post it on a tumblelog. Amazing, what people will tell a street full of strangers.”

2010, Richard Powers, Generosity, New York: Picador, →ISBN, page 10:

At the same time as maintaining activity on my tumblelog, I was communicating with other bloggers outside the group, collaborating with other teachers at my own institution, reflecting alone and reading both online and on paper.

2011, Dr Kay Irie, Dr Alison Stewart, Realizing Autonomy:

(Internet) A microblog, especially one on the Tumblr microblogging service.


vlogging

(Internet) The keeping of a vlog (video weblog).


blogorrhea

Blend of blog + logorrhea, or possibly blog and diarrhea.

Most blogs fail because beginning bloggers don't understand that it's difficult to come up with new content day in and day out. Sure, it's easy enough to post a "Didn't do anything today" lament or a "Don't feel like writing today" sigh. But post too much of this content-free blogorrhea—or, sin of sins in the blogging community, don't post at all for long periods—and your blog is as good as dead.

2004, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 237:

It’s a surprisingly robust masthead, considering that the entire operation produces about 1,500 words a day—barely a peep in the days of unrelieved blogorrhea and Web-wide word bloat.

2006 May 1, Michael Idov, “How Sweet Is It?”, in New York:

Not every blogger writes confessional kiss-and-tell posts or records the dinner menu—the blogosphere is not all blogorrhea and mystery meat.

2009, Dennis Baron, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 166:

stream-of-consciousness
stream of consciousness

(Internet, slang) Excessive, compulsive, or stream-of-consciousness blogging, especially over trivial matters.


miniblog

Some of the social media such as Twitter can be exploited to get out the miniblogs that generate a constant stream of news about schools and districts.

2011, David Carroll, Susan Rovezzi Carroll, Marketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support:

To offer another example, Amazon.com uses interactive tools to create communities of users that connect similar individual interests with related products using miniblogs, videos, and user chats.

2011, William Aspray, Barbara M. Hayes, Everyday Information:


manosphere

From man + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.

The Manosphere essentially is the counterpoint to the feminist doctrine (that empowers women at the expense of men). It is a free form community consisting primarily of men on the internet sharing experiences and thoughts with the intention of educating, empowering and improving the state of men and boys.

2014, Alex Peck, Average Married Dad's Guide to Health, Wealth, and a Sexy Marriage, page 84:

Incel is short for “involuntarily celibate”. The term rose to prominence because of its adoption by a subsection of the “manosphere”, a loose collection of movements united by misogyny that also includes some men’s rights activists, pick-up artists, and Mgtow/volcel – heterosexual men who refuse to have sex with women for political reasons.

2018, Alex Hern, Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?, The Guardian:

The foundational tenet of taking the red pill is at the root of almost all the major manosphere groups we will look at in this book, including pickup artists, so-called Men's Rights Activists, and Men Going Their Own Way.

2020, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All:

(Internet, neologism) The domain or totality of blogs and websites associated with the men's rights movement, the redpill movement or incels.


vlogosphere

From vlog + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.

A bit older than most of vlogging's main practitioners — who tend to be in their mid- to late-20s — the self-proclaimed baby boomer cites Hodson as one of two artists whose work attracted her to the vlogosphere.

2006, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, volume 29, page 32:

But even if you don't have movie-studio muscle to devote to your monologues, there are still ways to make a splash in the vlogosphere.

2006 September 24, Anna Kuchment, “Technology: Want to be a Video Star?”, in Newsweek:

The terrain conquered by these cyberpioneers? The blogopshere (and its videostreaming complement, the vlogosphere).

2013, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Inna Arzumanova, “Creative Authorship: Self-Actualizing Individuals and the Self-Brand”, in Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner, editors, Media Authorship, Routledge, →ISBN, page 162:

(Internet) The realm or culture of vlogs; all vlogs taken as a whole.


uberblogger

But then an uberblogger, Mickey Kaus of slate.com, commented on my comment, and his comments were responded to and picked up by others.

2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blog Wars, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 18:

Roberts is referring to the time constraints on his ability to write a media column for Westword's print edition as well as being the "uberblogger" for Westword's news blog, called The Latest Word.

2008 November 22, “Mr. Roberts at new helm”, in Rocky Mountain News:

But conservative uberblogger Instapundit — aka Glenn Reynolds — had another reaction.

2009 October 27, Victor Morton, “Inside Blogotics”, in The Washington Times:


photoblogger

From photo + blogger or photoblog + -er.


hateblog

Every reasonable source (aka not Democratic hateblogs) also disproves this troll's idiotic claims.

2009 October 27, Jim Alder, “Re: Another leftard lie about President Bush”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

The legislation was a formal expression of support for Chris Armstrong, the University of Michigan student government president who has been in the news lately as the target of a hate-blog written by Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan assistant attorney general.

2010, "ASG Complicates Simple Opportunity", The Arkansas Traveler (University of Arkansas), Volume 105, Number 15, 10 December 2010, page 4

Not only did 9/11 confirm this, but the rising cases of social media terrorism though uncensored hate-blogs have also awakened the world to various groups of vindictive individuals who stop at nothing to achieve their objective of destroying the target.

2013 September 29, Angela Ambitho, “Let’s also crush social media terrorists”, in The Standard, Kenya:

A blog dedicated to expressing intense disapproval or hatred of someone or something.


rebloggable

rebloggable (comparative more rebloggable, superlative most rebloggable)

more rebloggable (comparative)
most rebloggable (superlative)

Every blog post is potentially rebloggable via RSS technology.

2009, Curt Cloninger, Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground, New Riders, →ISBN, page 117:

With its suspense-filled editing, rapid-fire dialogue, and moments you can totally make into rebloggable GIF sets to fit any range of emotions from “life sucks” to “I'm happy and it's confusing” to “life sucks,” […]

2013, Amanda Rodriguez, "Sherlock Inspires Mystery, Tumblr Erotica", The MQ (satirical newspaper of John Muir College, University of California, San Diego), Volume 19, Issue 6, 1 May 2013, page 10

Streetwear transcends downtown skate parks and emerges as instantly rebloggable on Tumblr dashboards everywhere thanks to celebrities with a knack for LOLs and labels.

2013 October, Cori Rosen, “Label Maker”, in Jerk, volume 12, number 1, Syracuse University, page 47:

Capable of, or suitable for, being reblogged.


blogspeak

Bloggers with a science background, like bloggers on most other topics, often demonstrate open scorn for the mainstream media (MSM in blogspeak).

2009 March 19, Geoff Brumfiel, “Science journalism: Supplanting the old media?”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7236, →DOI, page 276:

(informal, blogging) The variety of language used in blogs.


blogshop

We have previously suggested that the Blogshop phenomenon emerged through the symbiotic relationship of technology adaptation and design with specific geographic conditions.

2010, Hannakaisa Isomäki, Samuli Pekkola, Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development, →ISBN, page 245:

Finally, another form of reproducing stereotypes and dominating feminine identities is blogshops, online sites in which young women model and sell apparel via social media that have exploded in many countries.

2013, Kerric Harvey, Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, →ISBN, page 570:

The blogshop model, 18, makes up for her petite 1.65m frame with her sharp features and megawatt smile.

2012 December 12, Chow Hui Min, “Journey of a Blogshop Model”, in Temasek Polytechnic Campus newspaper: Stop Press, retrieved 2015-10-31:

(Singapore) A blog that functions as a retail portal.


milblog

Milblogs required a balancing act between freedom of speech and the need for information security.

2008, Michael D. Doubler, The National Guard and the War on Terror: Operation Iraqi Freedom, page 80:

Milblogs have also been incorporated into mainstream coverage.

2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 36:

She opened and replied to all of her emails. That seemed to take less time than usual so she checked her favorite milblog.

2014, Cat Johnson, A Prince Among Men, page 130:

(Internet) A blog written by a person serving in the military.


warblogger

Possibly the most famous warblogger was the Baghad architect, Salam Pax, who logged on regularly to provide eyewitness reports on the bombing of his city.

2005, Graeme Turner, Ending the Affair: The Decline of Television Current Affairs in Australia, page 138:

And when Lileks turned into a warblogger, he made his bones. His audience swelled as Lileks turned tremendous writing skills to the issues of the war and a post-9/11 world.

2005, Hugh Hewitt, Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World, page 106:

Another notable difference is that warbloggers eventually made themselves heard on their own terms by the mainstream media, which had initially scorned them.

2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 33:


milblogger

One milblogger who writes anonymously, (as many do), commented in private correspondence with the author: […]

2006, Carl E. Dauber, “Life in Wartime: Real-Time News, Real-Time Critique, Fighting in the New Media Environment”, in Military Life: The Psychology of Serving in Peace and Combat, page 203:

A number of milbloggers converted their work to published books after returning home.

2008, Michael D. Doubler, The National Guard and the War on Terror: Operation Iraqi Freedom, page 81:

The rise of milbloggers writing from within the war zone itself suggests that in terms of international news reported from outside the West, citizen journalism—just like mainstream news reporting—is likely to be more easily done by Westerners.

2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 35:

(Internet) A military service member who writes a blog.

Some proxy officials from occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts also operate as milbloggers because they voice their opinions, share analysis from other milbloggers, and disseminate footage from the frontlines independent of the Kremlin and often at odds with the official MoD and Kremlin lines.

2022 November 20, Kateryna Stepanenko, Frederick W. Kagan, Grace Mappes, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 20”, in understandingwar.org, Institute for the Study of War, archived from the original on 2022-11-21:

(Internet) A blogger, usually one with a close relationship to armed forces, who blogs, often from the front lines, about an ongoing war.


warblog

September 11 also spawned a generation of "warblogs,” mostly hawkish sites that focused on the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks.

2002, Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook, page 156:

Roggio, a former US soldier, turned his long-running warblog into a grander enterprise called the Long War Journal.

2009, Donald Matheson, Stuart Allan, Digital War Reporting, page 123:

Some of the most interesting are the warblogs created by soldiers and others.

(Internet) A blog documenting an ongoing military conflict or presenting analysis or opinions related to it.


warblogging

The writing and publication of a warblog.


biblioblogger

From biblio- + blogger or biblioblog + -er.

(Internet) A contributor to a blog or online journal concerned with the Bible.


biblioblog

(Internet) A blog or online journal concerned with the Bible.


biblioblogging

(Internet) The process of writing and publishing a biblioblog.


manospherian

neo colonialists,
meatheads,
juicers,
manospherians
and all the rest.

2016, Brandon Adamson, “The Swinging Nationalist”, in Beatnik Fascism, page 41:

Like Donovan, many manospherians invoke evolutionary psychology to bolster claims that traditional gender roles are inherent in human nature, and many of them emphasize male bonding as a key part of reasserting men's power.

2019, Matthew N. Lyons, “Jack Donovan and Male Tribalism”, in Mark Sedgwick, editor, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy, page 249:

Framing femininity in terms of immaturity and dependence is one of the characteristics of the manospherian discourse (Lilly, 2016).

2019, Zhané Hunte, "'Female Nature, Cucks, and Simps': Understanding Men Going Their Own Way as part of the Manosphere", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 24

(Internet slang, neologism, sometimes used attributively) One who participates in online communities associated with the manosphere.


blog carnival

(Internet) An event where various weblog authors write posts on the same topic, which are then published together.


Bloggernacle

(Internet slang) The Mormon blogosphere.


multiblog

(Internet) Of or relating to more than one weblog.


phlog

(Internet) A weblog updated by means of text messages from a mobile phone, rather than by computer.


phlog

(Internet) A journal published via the Gopher protocol.


sideblog

(Internet) A secondary weblog, ancillary to the author's primary blog.


blogcentric

blogcentric (comparative more blogcentric, superlative most blogcentric)

more blogcentric (comparative)
most blogcentric (superlative)

De Vellis began obsessively checking in with Technorati, the blogcentric search engine, to see which bloggers had posted links to his YouTube creation. Within the first 48 hours, the clip had been viewed more than 100,000 times […]

2009, Eric Boehlert, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press:

The class discussed here used a blogcentric curriculum in which students were required to make one class topic–relevant post, one comment to another student's post, and one link to a new information source each week.

2016, Michael Glassman, Educational Psychology and the Internet:


bloggery

To me bloggery is much like modern poetry: most people want to write it than read it.

2007, The Spectator, volumes 303–304, page 56:

(rare) The act or practice of writing a blog; blogging.


blogness

(rare) The state or quality of being a blog.


blogoverse

(Internet) The world or sphere of blogs; the blogosphere.


vagueblog

en-verb

vagueblog (third-person singular simple present vagueblogs, present participle vagueblogging, simple past and past participle vagueblogged)

vagueblogs (present singular third-person)
vagueblogging (participle present)
vagueblogged (participle past)
vagueblogged (past)

"A lot of people have called us out. Subtweeting, vagueblogging, saying that The CW is instituting a program that is esoteric, abstruse, and worse, morally bankrupt."

2015 December 7, Brook Becker, “New sexual health course based on relationships in Gossip Girl”, in The Collegian, University of Tulsa, page 14:

She longed to go to him, embrace him, and more -- but she knew he'd never allow it, so she contented herself vagueblogging about him and posting raunchy "jokes".

2019, J. C. Cheesman, Wish Fulfillment, unnumbered page:

use Tumblr to vagueblog
about him, go back
and delete every post
you have tagged with his name.

2020, Anonymous, "The Gen Z Guide to Letting Him Go", The Greenleaf Review 2020 (Guilford College), page 41

(Internet, neologism) To post deliberately cryptic statements on a social media or blogging platform.


blogathon

(blogging, neologism) A period or event during which one or more people publish a large number of blog posts, usually about a specific subject.


blawgosphere

Right now large firms are underrepresented in the "blawgosphere."

2005, "Between Lawyers Roundtable: The Future of Legal Blogging", Law Practice Magazine, July/August 2005

While the number of judge-authored blawgs is less than the number of blawgs published by other members of the legal community, such as attorneys or law professors, they do have a presence in the blawgosphere that cannot be denied.

2009, Brian A. Craddock, “2009: A Blawg Odyssey: Exploring How the Legal Community Is Using Blogs and How Blogs are Changing the Legal Community”, in Mercer Law Review^(https://ursa.mercer.edu/bitstream/handle/10898/9195/62_60MercerLRev1353(2008).pdf?sequence=1), volume 60, number 4, page 1359:

Women are underrepresented throughout legal academia from the ranks of professors down to the “blawgosphere” of law professor blogging.

2021, Dara E. Purvis, “Legal Education as Hegemonic Masculinity”, in Villanova Law Review, volume 65, number 5, page 1145:

(Internet) The totality of blawgs (law blogs); the community of blawgers.


blawger

Attorneys are finding fans (and some fame) by posting legal commentary on the Internet. Here's a look at four such blawgers.

2003, ABA Journal, March 2003, page 2 (table of contents)

First, there is fear that the lack of accountability conferred by the cloak of anonymity will permit blawgers to make false or scurrilous claims.

2009, Judy M. Cornett, "The Ethics of Blawging: A Genre Analysis", Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2009, page 240

Intellectual property lawyers are perhaps the most enthusiastic blawgers.

2011, Peter Groves, A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law, page 32:

(Internet) A person who runs a blawg (law blog).


diavlog

Blend of dialogue + vlog, itself a blend of video and blog, itself a blend of web log.

(Internet) A weblog using video of a dialogue between two people as its primary presentation format.


blogrolling

One feature that some argue may help increase a blogger's credibility is “blogrolling” – or hyperlinking to bloggers' favorite sites. Blogrolling can be used as a credibility assessment component.

2011, Gavin Jocius, The Age of Annoyance, page 63:

Blogrolling is similar to adding friends, but possibly more significant.

2014, Biz Stone, Who Let the Blogs Out?, page 101:

(Internet) The practice of a blogger listing hyperlinks to other recommended blogs.


blogiversary

Blog soon begat a whole new generation of techno-neologisms in the blogosphere, where bloggers compile blogrolls, celebrate blogiversaries and suffer from blogorrhea.

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:

When it comes around again, write a post celebrating your blogiversary..

2015, Charlotte Hodgson, Peter Woodard, Pocket Blogger: Fashion, page 54:

The anniversary of one's first blog post.


womanosphere

From woman + -o- + -sphere, by analogy with manosphere.

Instead, we retreat into our gender-segregated media spaces where the manosphere extols stoicism and the womanosphere celebrates emotional vulnerability.

2024 April 17, David Sasaki, “The emotionally immature lives of men and women”, in The Time Capsule:

(Internet) The collection of blogs and websites that focus on women's issues.