BLOGOSPHERE
When I type it I cringe. It's the most dumbass sounding word around. No one likes it. We need a new one. Leave your suggestions in comments below.
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08 March 2005
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Me likes Blogostan.
. . . and if you're in trouble . . . won't you blogostan, blogostan, blogostan by me. . . .
Posted by: The Heretik | 08 March 2005 at 13:30
Blogiverse
Posted by: david | 08 March 2005 at 13:35
Blogostan, that's between Afghanistan & Kazikstan ?
and next on the list to get bombed back to the stone-age
(unless there's oil of course, then we'll sell it to
Halliburton). Tony Blair has already pledged his support for any US action.
Posted by: Pete | 08 March 2005 at 13:39
How about 'The Blatherverse'
from
A School of fish
A Herd of Cows
A Murder of Crows
& A Blather of Bloggers
(Not you of course Rox)
Posted by: Pete | 08 March 2005 at 13:43
(Don't Go Back To) Blogville
Pittsblog, Penn.
Blogtown and the Z-Boys.
Charme discret de la blogeoisie.
Posted by: Alex | 08 March 2005 at 13:50
Talk radio without "talk" or "radio".
Posted by: Chris Rasmussen | 08 March 2005 at 13:53
How about the Blogosmear?
Posted by: Trish Wilson | 08 March 2005 at 13:57
Blogmonde. It's French enough to piss off the wingers.
Posted by: Randy Paul | 08 March 2005 at 14:07
The only thing that comes readily to mind is "clusterfuck".
Posted by: Amanda | 08 March 2005 at 14:17
sweet Boudica, yes! dumbass with a capital "DUMB"! it would be great if some day the term "blog" withered or faded away & was replaced by something that didn't sound quite so much like someone about to zuke after a white russian binge
some pieces of blog-slang are nice, even eloquent (like "thread") but on the whole it often seems a remarkably clunky lingo
p.s. happy anniversary!
Posted by: jam | 08 March 2005 at 15:03
As a replacement for "the blogosphere?" I'm partial to "Mom's basement" myself. As in "Conservative denizens of Mom's Basement were jubilant over the so-called Easongate scandal."
Posted by: Chris Clarke | 08 March 2005 at 15:28
PenisMeasurementSphere?
Posted by: michele | 08 March 2005 at 15:34
Well, you could go with skippy and use "blogtopia." But *I* like "blogitat." Or for feminist bloggers, "blogitits," (accent on the last syllable) as in, "Damn, did you see that awesome post over at Rox Populi? That took some blogitits!"
Posted by: Elise | 08 March 2005 at 15:42
The problem is the root: the word "blog" is just hideous. We need a replacement for it.
Posted by: PZ Myers | 08 March 2005 at 15:43
some pieces of blog-slang are nice, even eloquent (like "thread") but on the whole it often seems a remarkably clunky lingo= Clunkilingostan.
PenisMeasurementSphere= Penistan, alt Penisphere alt Dickostan
Make mine a blogroll with chicken, light on the OY! sauce. Thank you.
Posted by: The Heretik | 08 March 2005 at 15:48
"Penistan"
Wouldn't work. That's what I named my vibrator.
Posted by: michele | 08 March 2005 at 15:51
It's a word meant to be typed (like blogs), not spoken. In fact, the word "blog" itself sounds dumb if you say it, which is why I always refer to it as a "weblog" if I talk about it.
Posted by: Elayne Riggs | 08 March 2005 at 15:54
Yep, but now the medium transcends typing. Whenever Jon Stewart says "blogosphere" it sounds fucking stupid.
Posted by: Roxanne | 08 March 2005 at 15:59
When people all ways tell you things and do it in this manner, "You know they say that pizza is really good for you," I have wondered who is the "they" they are speaking of.
I think we should become the "They" in they say. That way when ever someone claims that "They say poking your eye out with a red hot poker is fun," we know who the hell they are talking about.
Posted by: Blue | 08 March 2005 at 16:00
"Personal Accounts."
Posted by: sylamore | 08 March 2005 at 16:01
I think we need something invoking the image of a thousand monkeys with typewriters. I toss that out there in the hopes that someone can do something with it.
Posted by: bitchphd | 08 March 2005 at 16:17
a thousand monkeys with typewriters= Monkeytypostan
Note to Heretik Self: check meds. See doc, with or without appointment. Lay off the italics.
Oy, that's all I can stan, I can't stan no more.
Posted by: The Heretik | 08 March 2005 at 16:23
Typing-monkey-verse = Tymoverse? Tymoland might work. Tymotopia?
How about we just cut to the chase and call it Hamlet?
Posted by: folkbum | 08 March 2005 at 16:25
It is of course difficult to get people to refer to something in a new way.
The exception to that is when an acronym starts to propagate.
Like, if there was a "Blog Registration Of Ordinal Domains", which gets called the "brood."
I'm not sure if let's what's going on in the brood today is any better than blogosphere, though.
Posted by: alt hippo | 08 March 2005 at 16:33
how about red state/blue state theme? .. blogifornia, blogechusettes, blogabama ... you see where I am going with this so why haven't you stopped me yet?
Posted by: http://www.chepooka.com | 08 March 2005 at 16:34