Strange technology terms, real or invented, that make their way through the blogosphere, through TIME magazine, and eventually someone’s business model…

Bedouin: A technology worker armed with a laptop and cell phone, relying on WiFi at cafes, thereby not needing an office. (Source)

Beme: A meme spread over the net through blogs and the blogosphere, meaning it can move extremely quickly, especially if mentioned by the blogging elite. (Source)

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

Bitchmeme: Any subject bloggers lamely congregate around when there is a dearth of news. Usually started by one bitchy post to which everyone must respond until things collapse into a rip on the entire blogosphere as an echo chamber. (Source, source)

Blangina: A clinical disorder of blog addiction. Symptoms include: obsessive monitoring of stats, 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.

Blogamageddon: The coming destruction of all blogs – when blogging is largely automatic, meaning it’s so easy anybody can do it, so most people give up due to the difficulty of maintaining an audience. Origin: Engtech. (Source)

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).

Blogosphere: The “world” created by blogs and their link-happy nature. (Source)

Blook: A book based on a blog. (Source)

Cat Blogging: Blogging about mundane activities such as what they had for dinner, what television show they’re watching, and what their cat has been up to recently. Seems to be the majority of MySpace blogs. May soon (hopefully) be replaced by Twitter See chart. (Source).

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

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

Deadpoolbaiting: Pronouncing a random tech company dead even when there’s no indication that this is so. (Source)

Fatblogging: Blogging about losing weight. Origin: Jason Calacanis. (Source)

Fatspam: What some people consider fatblogging.

Flog: A blog that looks legitimate but is really set up by a company to promote something via viral marketing. (Source)

FriendFeed Fever: When a blogger begins to use FriendFeed at the expense of other web services, leading them to write posts claiming “FriendFeed is the next Google” or “FriendFeed will kill Twitter”.

Frigtard: Combination of “f***” and “retard” – favorite negative description of Fake Steve Jobs.

Gaming: Using sneaky tactics to “get ahead”, which on the web means garnering links to your content. Especially common when the indexing service has an automated algorithm that can be tricked. (Source).

God-cast: A religious service distributed as a podcast. (Source).

Haterz: What to call people who think you’re a moron. Used in excess by Casey Serin before the Internets foreclosed on him. (Source)

Laws of The Blogosphere:

1. Don’t Blog Stupid.
2. Don’t Blog Angry.
3. When In Doubt, Blame Robert Scoble. (Source)

Linkbait: Content deliberately designed to get the attention of social news sites for the purpse of garnering links. Because of this click-tempting nature, the subject matter tends toward the sensational with a heavy emphasis on an attention-grabbing headline. A site’s name can be applied (Digg-bait). (Source)

LOLcat: A leet speak captioned cute cat photograph.

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

Meh: A short phrase that communicates “been there, done that” in a “been there, done that” kind of way. (Source)

Meme: An idea that spreads over the internet. (Source)

Me-Media: Term for “personal content” websites; I’m thinking a replacement for “user created content”. (Source)

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

Narcissytem: Web 2.0 technology devoted to narcissism, notable examples Twitter and UStream. (Source)

Screen Sucking: Wasting time online long after you have finished what you signed on to do. (Source)

Spam: An internet communication that is intended to sell something. (Source)

Splog: A blog set up for the sole purpose of selling stuff or getting you to click on the ads. Even worse when it pretends to have actual content but said content is scraped from legitimate blogs. (Source)

Spokesblogger: Webwriter who lends his or her name to a corporate marketing effort, disclosure or damage to reputation be damned. (Source)

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

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.

Technosexual: Trademarked by Calvin Klein in regards to their fragrance CK in2u. A person that uses technology (blogs, texting, IM, MySpace) to “hook up” and therefore slather themselves with a perfume. Origin: Calvin Klein. (Source)

Twitterer: A user of Twitter. (Source)

Twittering: To send a Twitter message. (Source)

Twittermob: An unruly and ragtag horde of people who descend on an ill-prepared location after a provocative Twitter message. (Source)

Twittercal mass: A community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers. (Source)

Twitterpated: To be overwhelmed with Twitter messages. (Source)

Twitterrhea: The act of sending too many Twitter messages. (Source)

Weblogism: New web neologism. (Source)

Wilf: To pointlessly search the web, trying to answer the question: “what was I looking for?” (Source)

Wypo: Web typo (Source)

YASNS: Yet Another Social Networking Service. Also: YAASSN: Yet Another Ad Supported Social Network. (Source)