Top 10 words of the ’80s

You might have heard your friends use these words but the truth is, it’s your parents who are more familiar with these following terms:

1. Hip-hop – the term pairs the hip that means “trendy” or “fashionable” with the leaping movement hop.

2. Balsamic – comes from the Italian word for “curative,” because the vinegar is traditionally thought to aid digestion. (A few sips of balsamic vinegar are sometimes taken after a meal, as a digestif.)

3. Apartheid – “The urge to punish South Africa for apartheid is now palpable throughout the United States. Americans want to destroy this abhorrent structure of racism or disown its sponsors’ claimed kinship with Western culture.” — Editorial, New York Times, June 9, 1985

Buzzwords for novice bloggers

It was last year when I signed up to wordpress and created this blog. My journalism classmates (the people who introduced me to wordpress blogging, but i used to have a xanga account) were using wordpress for their online journalism subject. I got fascinated with the way online communities work, and how my classmates interacted using this publishing application. Now that they’re graduates it’s my turn to take the online class.

My blog turned one year this November, but it was only last August when I started posting regularly when I tried to keep a backup of the articles I have written for a broadsheet where I work as a contributing writer. So to celebrate my fourth month as a novice blogger, the second edition of Nix’s top 12 is about words that a green apple blogger should know. Today’s list collected buzzwords preceded by the root word blog.

1. Blog – a place where people bitch about their daily activities which nobody is interested in.

2. Blog balled – Girls who will only chat you up online and not meet in the real world.

3. Blog dick – a blogger who replies to the first commenter on the first page of comments so that EVERYONE can see their comment. Usually blog dicking is self promotion on someone else’s blog.

4. Blog drama – it happens when someone posts something that makes someone else mad. That person retaliates with personal attacks, which leads the other person to retaliate. Other bloggers join in and post about the drama. Minions on all sides join ranks and battle each other to defend their favorite blogger.

5. Blog drop – the act of posting something interesting to your blog before your friend does.

6. Blog envy – The jealousy you feel when you realize that your friend’s blog is more popular than yours.

7. Blog fluffer – A topic that, when blogged about, generates a large number of comments.

8. Blog Hooligan – An enabler for truth. One who speaks truth to power. Blog hooligans are an incredibly seismic and democratic force. They are willing to cover any point of view, special interest, or pet project, whether conservative, liberal or moderate, or aimed at justice, media bias, literature, sports whatever.

9. Blog whoring – Leaving a comment on a famous weblog, with a reference to one’s own, insignificant, blog to draw attention to it.

10. Blog-stalk – to secretly read someone’s blog with the express purpose of learning more about them without their knowledge; to stalk via blog.

11. Blogcrastinate – To put off blogging because you are suffering from blogger’s block.

12. Blogstipation – Inability to think of anything to blog about.

source: Urban Dictionary