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So Jay says I need to put something on here to stir things up a bit, create some heated discussion. He says he's going to "feed my blog" with controversial comments. I say, hey, don't tell me what to blog. Leave my blog alone. You get your own blog.  I say that purely from love.

But he did get me wondering about blog lingo. So, in case you are not up on your blog lingo, as I surely wasn't, here are some basic terms to know:
Barking moonbat - someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be.
Bleg - to use one's blog to beg for assistance such as money. It's known humorously as blegging.
Bloiversary - the birthday of the establishment of a blog.
Blogger ecosystem - a chart or list showing the links between blogs.
Blogroach - someone who infests the comments section of a blog with obnoxious postings. Similar to trolls who disrupt discussions by tricking others into reacting.
Blogroll - a collection of links on the sidebar of a blog linking to other blogs.
Blogosphere - the totality of the blogging community. Also known as Blogistan or the blogiverse.
Blogstorm - when a large amount of information, commentary, or activity erupts in the blogosphere.
Blurker - a person who reads many blogs but leaves no evidence of themselves behind; a silent observer.
Crud - when a blogger makes an error in programming that results in visible code appearing on the screen.
Comment Spam - an unsolicited commercial message automatically posted in a blog's comments area.
Dead-tree Media - anything made of paper such as newspapers and magazines.
Dooced (pronounced like deuce) - losing your job for something you wrote in an online blog.
Drive-by Blogging - the sudden rush of blog entries that fill in the gaps and fulfill the requirements of the weblog portfolio assignment.
Edublog - an education oriented blog.
Event blog - a blog set up for a particular event.
Feed Reader - news aggregators that are extensions to web browsers such as Firefox are used to read RSS feeds from blogs and other sources.
Flame - to make a hostile remark; usually of a personal nature.
Klogs - also known as knowledge logs are internal blogs often housed on intranets.
Link rot - when a list of website links contains many dead links; the best solution is to design your website with a permalink system
People to Know Jorn Barger - Credited with coining the term weblog in 1997
Peter Merholz - Credited with coining the term blog in 1999
Dave Winer - Created one of the first weblogs
Permalink - a web link that takes you to the permanent location of an article in a blog archive.
Podcasting - using your MP3 player to listen to the audio from a blog.
Plog - a project log used to chronicle a project.
RDF (Resource Description Framework) - a web content syndication format.
RSS (Rich Site Summary) or (Really Simply Syndication) - a web content syndication format; a feed reader is used to check RSS enabled webpages on behalf of a user and display any updated information. Learn more
Thread - a side discussion taking place within the comments section of a blog. The term is taken for the forum discussion environment.
Vogging - video blogging
Xenoblogging - the work you do that helps other people's blogs

I have a feeling there may be a few blurkers out there. Come on now, don't be shy. Reveal yourselves. It's very freeing.