Talk:List of blogging terms

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This long list of blogging terms was split off of the main Blog page to reduce that page's lumbering size. A fair number of these terms are crap and not in general usage in the blogging community. Others represent the penchant for some bloggers to coin portmanteaus. Feel free to pare down or expand upon any of these terms. Thesquire 22:04, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Delete

Ugh. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, thesaurus, or a list of neologisms. Does anyone have a reason this article should not be deleted? Friday (talk) 03:49, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

I thought collecting all the blogcrap related terms in here would be better than having 30 articles about each one, avoiding giving the capability to plug <insert favorite blog here> on each of those articles. What do you think (though I do agree, some of these terms are bullshit). --Timecop 06:45, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
This so blatantly violates WP:NOT that I'm going to try turning it into a redirect to Blog. If it lasts that way for a few days, I'll work on cleaning up the things that point here. Friday (talk) 14:43, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I disagree with this take, for several reasons. So many pages and redirects link here, that this move is rather... disruptive. Also, several other related lists DO, in fact, exist on Wikipedia. See List of computing and IT abbreviations and List of Internet slang. Because of the number of double-redirects this move has created, I'm going to move it back for now, until further consensus is reached. You also might considering listing the article on WP:AFD if you think it should be removed. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) | (contribs) 22:15, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I prefer to think of redirects as bold rather than disruptive, but maybe that's just me. Also, I don't see any merit in the "article X has the same problem as this article, and it's here, therefore this one must stay" type arguments. Each article is considered on its own. However, since there's disagreement with the redirect, I'm not going to put it back it or anything. I'm not convinced Afd is likely to produce discussion of much value, particularly with a blog-related article. Too many "blogs are saving the world and removing this article is censorship" fanatics tend to come out of the woodwork in Afd. Blog culture is shamelessly self-promoting, so people will continue making up their own neologisms and sticking them in this article. However, maybe that's OK if it keeps them out of other articles. Friday (talk) 14:46, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I would love to see this page and all of the people using these terms to be erased permanently. When this is placed in Wiktionary, could site specific terms be culled? What Daily Kos or Free Republic users refer to themselves as do not belong in a dictionary, but instead should be confined to an embarrassing footnote on the articles for those sites. Sund 04:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

I've just check Wiktionary for blogroll, this term doesn't seem to have made the transition. I'll try to fix this & do some checking of the other terms when I have time. 28 August 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.100.169.161 (talk) 23:09, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] From the main page

'Another word missing is "Blinking" (sometimes called "b-linking" or "b'linking"): a synonym of blog hopping, clicking from blog to blog via links on the page.

Lurking (reading someone's blog and never commenting) is missing from the list too.

What about blogmemes and tagging?'

Thanks,

Computerjoe's talk 12:44, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flog

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

I think this gives too negative image about flogging. I would belive that some individuals does fictional blogs, with the same reason why some writes stories about fictional persons. A new type of phenomenon?

eQualizer 10:46, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Blogroll

Is blogroll as a term possibly related to the British slang word, "bog roll"? I can't believe I'm the only one ever to have made a connection... Evilteuf 18:43, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I thought that originally (since a blogroll is long and full of crap) but apparently it's modelled on "logroll" (US political term). 86.153.9.2 (talk) 17:24, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of English blogging terms?

I was thinking that this should maybe be changed to "List of English blogging terms" since that's what this is? --220.110.237.219 (talk) 16:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

This is the English wikipedia. If you were referring to the geographic region rather than the language, I'm afraid I don't understand. arquin (talk) 09:59, 21 May 2008 (UTC)