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A
Advocacy blog
noun. A blog (qv) focused on (typically) political advocacy. Although most blogs are overtly partisan, an advocacy blogs’ content will be pointedly structured to deliver an activist message. Advocacy blogs generally overlap with pundit blogs (qv), but usually have less of a strict emphasis on current news and are more polemical in nature.
Anti-idiotarian
noun. Someone opposed to a whole raft of political values which are derived from a fundamentally irrational meta-context (world view). Anti-idiotarians can be found across a wide section of the political spectrum and are primarily characterised by vocal rational judgmentalism, generally hawkish sentiments and transcendent loathing of Noam Chomsky.
(coined by Charles Johnson)
Usage: "Like most anti-idiotarians I cannot but marvel as the sight of the Palestinian leadership forming yet another circular firing squad at the first grudging sign of reasonable behaviour by the Israeli government"
- Perry de Havilland.
Also see: Idiotarian, Tranzi, Warblog
B
Barking moonbat
noun. Someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be.
(coined by Perry de Havilland)
Usage:"Definition of a ’barking moonbat’: someone who sacrifices sanity for the sake of consistency"
-Adriana Cronin
Blog
1. noun. A contraction of weblog, a form of on-line writing characterised in format by a single column of chronological text, usually with a sidebar, and frequently updated. As of mid 2002, the vast majority of blogs are non-professional (with only a few experimental exceptions) and are run by a single writer.
Usage: "Glenn has writen an interesting article about the folly of gun control on his blog"
also see: Warblog, Journal blog, Pundit blog, Tech blog, Group blog
2. verb. To write an article on a blog.
Usage: "Steven Green has just blogged about the joys of Vodka today"
Blog Digest
noun. A blog regularly that reports on or summarizes a number of other blogs, typically on a daily basis. Blog Digests are extremely useful but as they are difficult to sustain, unfortunatly tend to have short operational lives. Also: Digest blog.
Blogathy
noun. When you just don’t give a damn about posting in your blog that day.
(coined by Michele Catalano)
Blogerati
noun. The blogosphere (qv) intelligentsia.
Blogger
1. noun. A person who owns or writes for a weblog.
2. noun. Blogger.com, the most widespread blog publishing software package created by Evan Williams.www.blogger.com
Blogger bash
noun. A party for bloggers; a blogger get-together.
(possibly coined by Perry de Havilland)
Blogger ecosystem
phrase. A chart or lists showing the links between blogs. Also: Blog ecosystem.
Bloggerverse
noun. See Blogosphere.
Blogistan
noun. The totality of blogs; blogs as a community.
However, the term is sometimes used to mean the totality of just warblogs (qv), or pundit blogs (qv) rather than the entire blogosphere (qv).
Also see: blogosphere, blogiverse
Blogiverse
noun. See blogosphere.
Blognoscenti
noun. A blog connoisseur.
Blogopotamus
noun. A very long blog article
Usage: "Paul Marks has done another Blogapotamus on Samizdata.net"
Blogorrhea
noun. An unusually high volume output of articles on a blog.
Usage: "Well, 48 hours and 4,195 words later, we’re reaching for our dictionary to check the definition of "significantly." After that, we’re going to look up blogorrhea."
- William Quick
Blogosphere
noun. The totality of blogs; blogs as a community
(coined by William Quick)
Blogroach
noun. A reader who infests the comment section of a weblog, disagreeing with everything posted in the most obnoxious manner possible.
(coined by Stacy Tabb)
Blogroll
1. noun. A list of links in the sidebar of a blog, often linking to other blogs. Also: blog roll.
2. . A blog link management system such aswww.blogrolling.com
Also see: Sidebar links
Blogspot
noun. The blog hosting servers operated by blogger.com. More blogs are hosted on blogspot than anywhere else.
Blogstipation
1. noun. To be unable to think of anything to blog about, i.e. writer’s block for bloggers.
2. noun. To be unable to post an article on your blog because blogger.com is down yet again.
(meaning 2. coined by Jim Treacher)
Blogule
noun. A concept or point within an article on a blog that is not quite grandiose enough to be a ’meme’.
(coined by Brian Micklethwait)
Blurker
1. noun. One who reads many blogs but leaves no evidence of themselves such as comments behind; a silent observer of blogs.
2. noun. One who reads many blogs but has no blog of their own; a blog-watcher or blog voyeur.
Usage: "But, Mikey, I can’t have a blog of my own! I’m a blurker!"
C
Crud (code)
noun. When a blog is published with incorrect html which resulting in visible code on the page, rather than a clickable link or special character or formatted text. The unintentionally visible code is ’crud’.
D
DNQ/DNP
Abrev.. Do Not Quote/Do Not Print. May be used in online correspondence, to clarify that these words/comments should not be posted on the other person’s blog.
(adapted by Gary Farber from common science fiction fandom usage)
Dead-tree media
phrase. Paper newspapers and magazines, also known as Old Media. Also: ’on dead trees’.
E
Edu-blog
noun. An education oriented blog. Also: Edublog
Ego-googling
verb. Looking up one’s own name in Google to check on its prominence. Also: e-googling or self-googling.
F
Fact-check (your ass)
verb. To use Internet search engines to ascertain the veracity of dubious claims made in the press.
(coined by Ken Layne)
Usage: "We can fact-check your ass!"
Fisk
verb. To deconstruct an article on a point by point basis in a highly critical manner. Derived from the name of journalist Robert Fisk, a frequent target of such critical articles in the blogosphere (qv).
Usage: "Orrin Judd did a severe fisking of an idiotic article in the New York Times today..."
Froglogs
noun. Francophone blogs.
G
Google bomb
verb. To intentionally insert words or phrases into as many
blogs as possible to increase the ranking on the Google search engine. Held by some to be a form of ’meme war’.
(coined by Adam Mathes)
Group blog
noun. A blog (qv) with more than one regular contributing writer. Also: Groupblog.
H
Hitnosis
noun. Being unable to stop yourself constantly refreshing your browser to see if your hit counter or comments section has increased since the last time you did it (i.e. about 1 minute ago). This often occurs when a ’memorable number’ is coming up (such as a blog’s hit counter crossing 10,000 or 100,000 or 250,000 visitors etc.) or an unusually large surge of posted comments are attracted by an article.
(coined by Perry de Havilland)
I
Idiotarian
noun. An advocate of irrationalist and subjectivist values that have very little reference to the workings of the real world. Idiotarians are often socialist (quintessentially Noam Chomsky), but can also be paleo-libertarian or paleo-conservative. The defining phrase of idiotarianism is "it is all the fault of the United States": this is usually applied to geopolitics but is sometimes encountered with regard to cultural issues, economic issues, environmental issues, the weather, socks lost in the laundry etc.
Also see: Tranzi, Anti-idiotarian
Instapundited
tr.verb. To have your blog mentioned on Instapundit.com. Also: Instalanche.
Usage: "Holy shit, look at the hit counter! We must have been Instapundited!"
Also see: Slashdotted
Interblog燺____ War
phrase. An series of exchanges between two or more blogs contesting some factual, political or philosophical issue.
(coined by Natalie Solent)
Usage: "Aintnobaddude.com, Heretical Ideas and Samizdata.net have started another Interblog Gun War"
J
Journal blog
noun. A personal diary-like blog. Personal journal blogs are by far the most numerically common type of blog. Most have extremely small readerships (albeit sometimes very dependble). Also: Diary blog
Journal blogs form one of the three primary distinct (and largely separate) cultural groups within the blogging world, the other two being Tech blogs and Pundit blogs.
Also see: Kittyblogger
K
K Log
noun. See: Knowledge Log. Also: Klog, K-Blog
Kittyblogger
noun. Technically someone who uses their blog to write about their cats, but is used to mostly to describe mundane Journal Blog (qv) content. Often used as an epithet but not always taken as one.
Also see: Journal Blog
Klogger
noun. Someone who writes for a corporate Knowledge Log (qv).
Knowledge Log
noun. Corporate knowledge management weblog.
Also see: K log, K blog
L
Linguablog
noun. A specialist blog dealing with regular postings about linguistics, language learning, translation and localization, endangered languages, language rights or other language-related subjects.
(coined by Enigmatic Mermaid)
Link rot
noun. Over time any large list of links will contain an increasing number of dead links.
Link whore
noun. A blogger (qv) who will go to any lengths to get other bloggers to link to them (the term is usually intended to be humourous). Also: Link slut. Both terms are in fact non-gender specific.
Linky Love
noun. See Reciprocal Link.
(coined by Dawson Jackson)
M
Me-zine
1. noun. A blog (meaning 1).
2. noun. A single contributor weblog.
Note: The term Me-zine is already fading from use, being rapidly replaced by ’blog’.
Meme
noun. A meme is considered to be a discrete idea that replicates itself, with the connotation that memes replicate themselves and are propagated by people through social and technological networks, much like both real and computer viruses.
(Coined by Richard Dawkins)
Usage: "The sarcastic meme of ’Our friends, the Saudis’ continues to spread across the Intenet"
Note: Although not strictly speaking a ’blog specific’ term, meme is very widely used in the Blogosphere (qv).
Also see: Meme hack, Meme war
Meme hack
noun. Intentionally altering a concept or phrase, or using it in a different context, so as to subvert the meaning. Also: memehack
Usage: for example the use of ’socialist’ imagery to in fact advocate capitalism:
Meme war
noun. Using googlebombs (qv), comment flyers and other technical means to propagate memes.
Meta-blogging
verb. To write blog articles about blogging. Also: metablogging.
Movable Type
noun. A popular blog publishing software package.www.movabletype.org
N
News blog
noun. See Pundit blog.
O
Old media
noun. Newspapers, magazines and major network television. Also see: Dead-tree media.
P
Permalink
1. noun. A link to a specific article in the archives of a blog, which will remain valid after the article is no longer listed on the blog’s front page (i.e after it has archived).
2. noun. [Deprecated] A link in a blogroll (qv, sense 1).
Pilger
verb. To destroy facts in a John Pilger fashion, to ’pillage’ the truth, poor or no fact checking, wild accusations, conspiracy theory, outright lying.
(coined by Auberon Waugh)
Pundit blog
noun. A blog (qv) focused on news punditry. The bulk of a pundit blogs’ content will be dissection of, or pointers to, stories currently running in the established media. Pundit blogs are largely the same thing as News blogs. Also: Punditblog.
Pundit blogs form one of the three primary distinct (and largely separate) cultural groups within the blogging world, the other two being Journal blogs and Tech blogs.
The archetypal pundit blog is Instapundit.com
Q
R
RSS
noun. RSS is a web content syndication format.
Reciprocal Link
noun. If you blogroll (qv) link to our blog, we will blogroll to your blog. Also: Linky Love
S
Sidebar
noun. One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page, usually used for blogroll (qv) links, contact information etc.
Sidebar links
noun. See blogroll.
Slashdotted
tr. verb. To have your blog mentioned on Slashdot.org.
Also see: Instapundited
Usage: "Omfug! Our hosting server has just used up the whole month’s bandwidth in the last 12 hours! We must have been slashdotted!"
T
Take down
verb. Similar to ’Fisk’ (qv). A point by point refutation.
Tech blog
noun. A blog (qv) focused on a technical subject. A high proportion of tech blogs are also groupblogs (qv). Also: Techblog.
Tech blogs form one of the three primary distinct (and largely separate) cultural groups within the blogging world, the other two being Journal blogs and Pundit blogs.
Tranzi
noun. Derived from ’Transnational Progressive’, a term popularised by John Fonte. Transnational Socialists. Not a term of endearment.
(coined by David Carr)
Troll
1. verb. To troll for hits is to post a provocative article purely in order to generate an angry response (usually followed by sending a mass e-mail shot to the target audience) and commensurate increase in hit rate.
2. noun. A person who trolls.
Usage: "Justin Raymondo has just trolled the Warbloggers again."
’Troll’ is usually used as an epithet and the term is widely used in this sense in newsgroups and e-lists as well as blogs.
U
V
W
Wanker, the
noun. The Guardian, a British left wing broadsheet newspaper. The literal meaning is British slang ’a person who masturbates’. Always intended as an epithet.
Warblog
1. noun. One of a large number of blogs (qv) which sprung up after September 11th 2001 (mostly in or after November 2001). Most at least initially were created to provide anti-idiotarian (qv) commentary in the aftermath of Al Qaeda’s attack upon the United States. Warblogs are essentially a subset of pundit blogs (qv). Someone who runs a Warblog is a Warblogger.
2. noun. Any blog largely or primarily dedicated to coverage of terrorism, the war or terrorism, and conflict in the Middle East, regardless of when it was started.
3. noun. Any blog that take an editorial position generally in favor of military intervention by the United States in one or more Middle Eastern or Central Asian nations linked to terrorism.
(probably coined by Matt Welch)
Note: As of mid 2002, many ’warblogs’ are now less exclusively focused on military affairs, terrorism and the related politics and some have quietly stopped describing themselves as ’warblogs’.
Also see: Anti-idiotarian.
Webwaffle
noun. An article posted on a blog.
(coined by Tony Millard)
Whoring (for hits)
intr.verb. Posting things on a blog purely to generate an increase in visitors. The term is often intended humourously, but not always.
文章来源： http://www.yourblog.org/Data/200312/188.html by: Ling
A
Advocacy blog
noun. A blog (qv) focused on (typically) political advocacy. Although most blogs are overtly partisan, an advocacy blogs’ content will be pointedly structured to deliver an activist message. Advocacy blogs generally overlap with pundit blogs (qv), but usually have less of a strict emphasis on current news and are more polemical in nature.
Anti-idiotarian
noun. Someone opposed to a whole raft of political values which are derived from a fundamentally irrational meta-context (world view). Anti-idiotarians can be found across a wide section of the political spectrum and are primarily characterised by vocal rational judgmentalism, generally hawkish sentiments and transcendent loathing of Noam Chomsky.
(coined by Charles Johnson)
Usage: "Like most anti-idiotarians I cannot but marvel as the sight of the Palestinian leadership forming yet another circular firing squad at the first grudging sign of reasonable behaviour by the Israeli government"
- Perry de Havilland.
Also see: Idiotarian, Tranzi, Warblog
B
Barking moonbat
noun. Someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be.
(coined by Perry de Havilland)
Usage:"Definition of a ’barking moonbat’: someone who sacrifices sanity for the sake of consistency"
-Adriana Cronin
Blog
1. noun. A contraction of weblog, a form of on-line writing characterised in format by a single column of chronological text, usually with a sidebar, and frequently updated. As of mid 2002, the vast majority of blogs are non-professional (with only a few experimental exceptions) and are run by a single writer.
Usage: "Glenn has writen an interesting article about the folly of gun control on his blog"
also see: Warblog, Journal blog, Pundit blog, Tech blog, Group blog
2. verb. To write an article on a blog.
Usage: "Steven Green has just blogged about the joys of Vodka today"
Blog Digest
noun. A blog regularly that reports on or summarizes a number of other blogs, typically on a daily basis. Blog Digests are extremely useful but as they are difficult to sustain, unfortunatly tend to have short operational lives. Also: Digest blog.
Blogathy
noun. When you just don’t give a damn about posting in your blog that day.
(coined by Michele Catalano)
Blogerati
noun. The blogosphere (qv) intelligentsia.
Blogger
1. noun. A person who owns or writes for a weblog.
2. noun. Blogger.com, the most widespread blog publishing software package created by Evan Williams.www.blogger.com
Blogger bash
noun. A party for bloggers; a blogger get-together.
(possibly coined by Perry de Havilland)
Blogger ecosystem
phrase. A chart or lists showing the links between blogs. Also: Blog ecosystem.
Bloggerverse
noun. See Blogosphere.
Blogistan
noun. The totality of blogs; blogs as a community.
However, the term is sometimes used to mean the totality of just warblogs (qv), or pundit blogs (qv) rather than the entire blogosphere (qv).
Also see: blogosphere, blogiverse
Blogiverse
noun. See blogosphere.
Blognoscenti
noun. A blog connoisseur.
Blogopotamus
noun. A very long blog article
Usage: "Paul Marks has done another Blogapotamus on Samizdata.net"
Blogorrhea
noun. An unusually high volume output of articles on a blog.
Usage: "Well, 48 hours and 4,195 words later, we’re reaching for our dictionary to check the definition of "significantly." After that, we’re going to look up blogorrhea."
- William Quick
Blogosphere
noun. The totality of blogs; blogs as a community
(coined by William Quick)
Blogroach
noun. A reader who infests the comment section of a weblog, disagreeing with everything posted in the most obnoxious manner possible.
(coined by Stacy Tabb)
Blogroll
1. noun. A list of links in the sidebar of a blog, often linking to other blogs. Also: blog roll.
2. . A blog link management system such aswww.blogrolling.com
Also see: Sidebar links
Blogspot
noun. The blog hosting servers operated by blogger.com. More blogs are hosted on blogspot than anywhere else.
Blogstipation
1. noun. To be unable to think of anything to blog about, i.e. writer’s block for bloggers.
2. noun. To be unable to post an article on your blog because blogger.com is down yet again.
(meaning 2. coined by Jim Treacher)
Blogule
noun. A concept or point within an article on a blog that is not quite grandiose enough to be a ’meme’.
(coined by Brian Micklethwait)
Blurker
1. noun. One who reads many blogs but leaves no evidence of themselves such as comments behind; a silent observer of blogs.
2. noun. One who reads many blogs but has no blog of their own; a blog-watcher or blog voyeur.
Usage: "But, Mikey, I can’t have a blog of my own! I’m a blurker!"
C
Crud (code)
noun. When a blog is published with incorrect html which resulting in visible code on the page, rather than a clickable link or special character or formatted text. The unintentionally visible code is ’crud’.
D
DNQ/DNP
Abrev.. Do Not Quote/Do Not Print. May be used in online correspondence, to clarify that these words/comments should not be posted on the other person’s blog.
(adapted by Gary Farber from common science fiction fandom usage)
Dead-tree media
phrase. Paper newspapers and magazines, also known as Old Media. Also: ’on dead trees’.
E
Edu-blog
noun. An education oriented blog. Also: Edublog
Ego-googling
verb. Looking up one’s own name in Google to check on its prominence. Also: e-googling or self-googling.
F
Fact-check (your ass)
verb. To use Internet search engines to ascertain the veracity of dubious claims made in the press.
(coined by Ken Layne)
Usage: "We can fact-check your ass!"
Fisk
verb. To deconstruct an article on a point by point basis in a highly critical manner. Derived from the name of journalist Robert Fisk, a frequent target of such critical articles in the blogosphere (qv).
Usage: "Orrin Judd did a severe fisking of an idiotic article in the New York Times today..."
Froglogs
noun. Francophone blogs.
G
Google bomb
verb. To intentionally insert words or phrases into as many
blogs as possible to increase the ranking on the Google search engine. Held by some to be a form of ’meme war’.
(coined by Adam Mathes)
Group blog
noun. A blog (qv) with more than one regular contributing writer. Also: Groupblog.
H
Hitnosis
noun. Being unable to stop yourself constantly refreshing your browser to see if your hit counter or comments section has increased since the last time you did it (i.e. about 1 minute ago). This often occurs when a ’memorable number’ is coming up (such as a blog’s hit counter crossing 10,000 or 100,000 or 250,000 visitors etc.) or an unusually large surge of posted comments are attracted by an article.
(coined by Perry de Havilland)
I
Idiotarian
noun. An advocate of irrationalist and subjectivist values that have very little reference to the workings of the real world. Idiotarians are often socialist (quintessentially Noam Chomsky), but can also be paleo-libertarian or paleo-conservative. The defining phrase of idiotarianism is "it is all the fault of the United States": this is usually applied to geopolitics but is sometimes encountered with regard to cultural issues, economic issues, environmental issues, the weather, socks lost in the laundry etc.
Also see: Tranzi, Anti-idiotarian
Instapundited
tr.verb. To have your blog mentioned on Instapundit.com. Also: Instalanche.
Usage: "Holy shit, look at the hit counter! We must have been Instapundited!"
Also see: Slashdotted
Interblog燺____ War
phrase. An series of exchanges between two or more blogs contesting some factual, political or philosophical issue.
(coined by Natalie Solent)
Usage: "Aintnobaddude.com, Heretical Ideas and Samizdata.net have started another Interblog Gun War"
J
Journal blog
noun. A personal diary-like blog. Personal journal blogs are by far the most numerically common type of blog. Most have extremely small readerships (albeit sometimes very dependble). Also: Diary blog
Journal blogs form one of the three primary distinct (and largely separate) cultural groups within the blogging world, the other two being Tech blogs and Pundit blogs.
Also see: Kittyblogger
K
K Log
noun. See: Knowledge Log. Also: Klog, K-Blog
Kittyblogger
noun. Technically someone who uses their blog to write about their cats, but is used to mostly to describe mundane Journal Blog (qv) content. Often used as an epithet but not always taken as one.
Also see: Journal Blog
Klogger
noun. Someone who writes for a corporate Knowledge Log (qv).
Knowledge Log
noun. Corporate knowledge management weblog.
Also see: K log, K blog
L
Linguablog
noun. A specialist blog dealing with regular postings about linguistics, language learning, translation and localization, endangered languages, language rights or other language-related subjects.
(coined by Enigmatic Mermaid)
Link rot
noun. Over time any large list of links will contain an increasing number of dead links.
Link whore
noun. A blogger (qv) who will go to any lengths to get other bloggers to link to them (the term is usually intended to be humourous). Also: Link slut. Both terms are in fact non-gender specific.
Linky Love
noun. See Reciprocal Link.
(coined by Dawson Jackson)
M
Me-zine
1. noun. A blog (meaning 1).
2. noun. A single contributor weblog.
Note: The term Me-zine is already fading from use, being rapidly replaced by ’blog’.
Meme
noun. A meme is considered to be a discrete idea that replicates itself, with the connotation that memes replicate themselves and are propagated by people through social and technological networks, much like both real and computer viruses.
(Coined by Richard Dawkins)
Usage: "The sarcastic meme of ’Our friends, the Saudis’ continues to spread across the Intenet"
Note: Although not strictly speaking a ’blog specific’ term, meme is very widely used in the Blogosphere (qv).
Also see: Meme hack, Meme war
Meme hack
noun. Intentionally altering a concept or phrase, or using it in a different context, so as to subvert the meaning. Also: memehack
Usage: for example the use of ’socialist’ imagery to in fact advocate capitalism:
Meme war
noun. Using googlebombs (qv), comment flyers and other technical means to propagate memes.
Meta-blogging
verb. To write blog articles about blogging. Also: metablogging.
Movable Type
noun. A popular blog publishing software package.www.movabletype.org
N
News blog
noun. See Pundit blog.
O
Old media
noun. Newspapers, magazines and major network television. Also see: Dead-tree media.
P
Permalink
1. noun. A link to a specific article in the archives of a blog, which will remain valid after the article is no longer listed on the blog’s front page (i.e after it has archived).
2. noun. [Deprecated] A link in a blogroll (qv, sense 1).
Pilger
verb. To destroy facts in a John Pilger fashion, to ’pillage’ the truth, poor or no fact checking, wild accusations, conspiracy theory, outright lying.
(coined by Auberon Waugh)
Pundit blog
noun. A blog (qv) focused on news punditry. The bulk of a pundit blogs’ content will be dissection of, or pointers to, stories currently running in the established media. Pundit blogs are largely the same thing as News blogs. Also: Punditblog.
Pundit blogs form one of the three primary distinct (and largely separate) cultural groups within the blogging world, the other two being Journal blogs and Tech blogs.
The archetypal pundit blog is Instapundit.com
Q
R
RSS
noun. RSS is a web content syndication format.
Reciprocal Link
noun. If you blogroll (qv) link to our blog, we will blogroll to your blog. Also: Linky Love
S
Sidebar
noun. One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page, usually used for blogroll (qv) links, contact information etc.
Sidebar links
noun. See blogroll.
Slashdotted
tr. verb. To have your blog mentioned on Slashdot.org.
Also see: Instapundited
Usage: "Omfug! Our hosting server has just used up the whole month’s bandwidth in the last 12 hours! We must have been slashdotted!"
T
Take down
verb. Similar to ’Fisk’ (qv). A point by point refutation.
Tech blog
noun. A blog (qv) focused on a technical subject. A high proportion of tech blogs are also groupblogs (qv). Also: Techblog.
Tech blogs form one of the three primary distinct (and largely separate) cultural groups within the blogging world, the other two being Journal blogs and Pundit blogs.
Tranzi
noun. Derived from ’Transnational Progressive’, a term popularised by John Fonte. Transnational Socialists. Not a term of endearment.
(coined by David Carr)
Troll
1. verb. To troll for hits is to post a provocative article purely in order to generate an angry response (usually followed by sending a mass e-mail shot to the target audience) and commensurate increase in hit rate.
2. noun. A person who trolls.
Usage: "Justin Raymondo has just trolled the Warbloggers again."
’Troll’ is usually used as an epithet and the term is widely used in this sense in newsgroups and e-lists as well as blogs.
U
V
W
Wanker, the
noun. The Guardian, a British left wing broadsheet newspaper. The literal meaning is British slang ’a person who masturbates’. Always intended as an epithet.
Warblog
1. noun. One of a large number of blogs (qv) which sprung up after September 11th 2001 (mostly in or after November 2001). Most at least initially were created to provide anti-idiotarian (qv) commentary in the aftermath of Al Qaeda’s attack upon the United States. Warblogs are essentially a subset of pundit blogs (qv). Someone who runs a Warblog is a Warblogger.
2. noun. Any blog largely or primarily dedicated to coverage of terrorism, the war or terrorism, and conflict in the Middle East, regardless of when it was started.
3. noun. Any blog that take an editorial position generally in favor of military intervention by the United States in one or more Middle Eastern or Central Asian nations linked to terrorism.
(probably coined by Matt Welch)
Note: As of mid 2002, many ’warblogs’ are now less exclusively focused on military affairs, terrorism and the related politics and some have quietly stopped describing themselves as ’warblogs’.
Also see: Anti-idiotarian.
Webwaffle
noun. An article posted on a blog.
(coined by Tony Millard)
Whoring (for hits)
intr.verb. Posting things on a blog purely to generate an increase in visitors. The term is often intended humourously, but not always.
文章来源： http://www.yourblog.org/Data/200312/188.html by: Ling
