blogorrhea

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Blend of blog +‎ logorrhea, or possibly blog and diarrhea.

Noun

[edit]

blogorrhea (uncountable)

  1. Excessive, compulsive, or stream-of-consciousness blogging, especially over trivial matters.
    • 2004, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 237:
      Most blogs fail because beginning bloggers don't understand that it's difficult to come up with new content day in and day out. Sure, it's easy enough to post a "Didn't do anything today" lament or a "Don't feel like writing today" sigh. But post too much of this content-free blogorrhea—or, sin of sins in the blogging community, don't post at all for long periods—and your blog is as good as dead.
    • 2006 May 1, Michael Idov, “How Sweet Is It?”, in New York:
      It’s a surprisingly robust masthead, considering that the entire operation produces about 1,500 words a day—barely a peep in the days of unrelieved blogorrhea and Web-wide word bloat.
    • 2009, Dennis Baron, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 166:
      Not every blogger writes confessional kiss-and-tell posts or records the dinner menu—the blogosphere is not all blogorrhea and mystery meat.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blogorrhea.