Blogger Buzz:
"Blargon's' a new one for me, but this William Safire piece in the NYTimes lists a bunch of bloggy lingo:
* MSM: 'mainstream media'
* Above the fold: 'what we see on a blog's screen before we begin to scroll down'
* The jump: 'a place to which the blog's readership is referred inside the Web site'
* sidebar: 'a column down one side of the screen displaying advertisements, archived links or a list of other blogs called a blogroll'
* bye-line: 'an adios or similar farewell at the end of the blogger's politely expressed opinion or angry screed'
* wingnuts: 'the prevailing put-down of right-wing bloggers'
* moonbats: 'the vilification of left-wing partisans who use the Web'
* ping: 'the gently noisy notification sent when a blog needs updating or has been updated'
* link love: 'an unsolicited, posted link that aims only to amuse or interest'
* simultaneous blogasm: 'the discovery that some other blogger has posted an identical thought at the same time'
* meme: 'a type of online chain letter where bloggers answer questions designed to give a quick overview of the blogger's personality'
* tag: 'a descriptive label applied to an individual post'
* delicious: 'To del.icio.us someone is to add them to your delicious bookmarks.'
* blogerati: 'people sophisticated in operating blogs'
* spam blogs, splogs and zombie blogs: 'these strange animated robot-generated texts meant to game search engines. When it's published as unwanted feedback on people's blogs, it's called comment spam' — definition from former Blogger team member Biz Stone
* fisk: 'from Robert Fisk, a U.K. journalist. That's when you take an article and reprint it on your blog adding your line-by-line critique'
Our own Jason Goldman is even quoted: 'A Web log was and is 'a log of requests that comes into a server'; it's the domain of techie people and no fun to look at. But blog, though coined from 'Web log,' is a word open to all sorts of ling"
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