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“Beme” Inspires Some New Blog Vocabulary

February 13th, 2007

Yet another word to add to your vocabulary: Beme. Basically it’s a meme, but one spread over the net through blogs and the blogosphere, meaning it can move extremely quickly, especially if mentioned by the blogging elite. Here’s the best definition.

It’ll be neat to track this term see if beme is a good enough meme to infiltrate the blogosphere, as did meme, spam, splog, flog, linkbait, blogosphere, and gaming.

Maybe one way to start a beme is to make up a new term for something. Here are some additional neogolisms I just invented:

Spomment: A spam comment (I have 2,000 if you want to see examples).

Clog: A blog devoted to cats, or one run by a cat fanatic (also: MogBlog [suggested by Dan]).

Techmaiming: Linking to stories featured on Techmeme in hopes they’ll notice you and included your blog in their index.

Technoranting: Deliberately blogging a counter intuitive viewpoint or just blasting some technology (“iTV Sucks! Here’s Why!”) with the intent of getting linkage.

Masterbaiting: The art of writing skilled link bait for deployment on Digg, Shoutwire, Netscape, Reddit, and other social news sites.

Diggpression: The empty feeling when you submit something to digg and it gets very few diggs, is buried, or even worse – you’re banned.

Blangina: A clinical disorder of blog addiction. Symptoms include: obsessive monitoring of stats (Alexa, Adsense, Technorati Rank), nervous twitch when a post is in draft mode, itchy scalp when comments are left unanswered, paranoia that A-listers are out to destroy you, and an annoying tendency to repeat in verbal conversation things you wrote on your blog.

Megitalomaniac: A mythical, high ranking blogger who in order to maintain their A-lister status, doesn’t link to less popular bloggers.

Blogger’s Block: Similar to writer’s block, but usually manifests itself when a blogger writes about “easy” filler subjects like lists, photographs of cats, other bloggers, advice for bloggers, and the art of blogging itself (this post itself is a good example).

Beme Me Up, Scotty: Latching onto a beme in hopes to ride the meme train. Example: this post.

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  • Dan
    "Clog: A blog devoted to cats, or one run by a cat fanatic"

    What about 'mog blog'?
  • Heh, I never heard the term "mog" for cat before. That's a good one. MyMogBlogLog has a nice ring to it...
  • Dan
    Well, I'm nothing if not a provider of cat synonyms.

    I like the idea of MyMogBlogLog and MyDogBlogLog - set them up, then get them to do battle with one another.
  • Ha ha, well, I was sort of mulling that over as well. Obviously I have a running count of the number of cat and number of dog avatars on MyBlogLog. I think the dogs are winning.
  • Dan
    Yeah... well, I have two dogs on my avatar (hard to make out, but they're there, pulling me along). But the cat still rules our household.
  • Joy
    These are great! I'm not so witty. A blog devoted to dogs would = a Dog? Dlog? I don't know.
  • clog - as in the sink is clogged
    IE: http://catsinsinks.com/

    masterbating: me thinks you meant to include an i between the ba and t?

    One I coined was blogamaggedon.

    That's when we hit the full tail swing of push button content publishing... everyone who wants to try blogging has tried it, but most people have given it up because it's too hard to try to get an audience when attention is split so narrowly amongst all the bloggers.
  • Sorry. I meant to write "Blogamageddon"

    I guess you can't take credit for a beme if you can't spell it properly.
  • Heh, engtech that was a great read. I found another cat site I forgot about (infinite cat).

    Joy, DogBlog makes sense to me...
  • ha diggpression...I know about that...
  • MG I think you should be cured (for a while at least) with that dollar coin story! :)
  • ha ha, quite true...
    but I didn't submit it, so maybe that's the cure...
  • Some good ones here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/16/dell-pays-...

    wypo - web typo
    weblogism - new web neologism
  • There are many definitions and symptoms commonly described as "scalp infections". There are in fact quite a few quite different reasons why your scalp may be sore, itchy, inflamed burning red or infected.
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