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With the proliferation of weblogging have come a variety of new terms derived from the word weblog. So for a quickie today, I thought I’d try to help us all out by listing as many variations as I could, starting with the granddaddy of them all:

Blog – short for weblog, typically it’s a website with a series of journal-style posts, displayed in reverse chronological order

And here are the variations I know of…

• Clog – a weblog for either concert or music-related postings, or alternatively, a weblog designed to be part of a company’s marketing efforts (also a charming form of dance where participants attempt to beat the floor to death with wooden shoes)
• Flog – a photolog (apparently photographers have problems spelling)
• Glog – an expert’s (sometimes) commentaries (on a weblog) while covering live games; these weblogs are typically short-lived
• Plog – a project weblog
• Slog – an extremely difficult Cricket shot (completely irrelevant to the internet, but then again, who understands Cricket anyway?)
• Splog – a spam weblog with fake postings (see Wal-Mart & Edelmen, etc.)
• Vlog – a video weblog

Hmmm. I notice there are still some consonants not being used. Just to round things out and make things easier for future webloggers everywhere, here are my suggestions for some of the remaining letters.

• Dlog – colloquial term for “the weblog”; a reference to a specific blog (as in, “Joe, here’s my post for dlog today. Now I think I’ll grab a beer, kick back dBarcalounger and watch dTV.”)
• Hlog – dedicated to blogs whose writers can’t seem avoid expletives that start with the letter H
• Jlog – a fan weblog devoted to following every moment of the life and times of J-Lo
• Klog – a variation of the above-mentioned Clog, but featuring Bluegrass and Country music
• Mlog – I propose this term for blogs having to do with marriage? (you know, the “M-word” – with a nod to Steve Martin in the movie, All of Me)
• Qlog – blogs dedicated to Star Trek; named for Q, the petulant, semi-godlike character from Star Trek the Next Generation
• Xlog – all weblogs devoted to (you guessed it) sex, making them easier to avoid (or to find, you pervert!)
• WLOG – alas, already in use as the call letters for a radio station in Logan, West Virginia, USA (besides, what else could it be?)
• Zlog – the French version of Dlog, above (as in, “Monsieur Josef, here is my post for zlog today. I think I will now relax in zchaiselounge, have some wine and watch zTV. Those crazy Americans, they are so funny, no?”)

Still having problems with these last few, so I’m open to suggestions from the vast, unpaid research department (uh – that’s you – but notice the “unpaid” part).

• Nlog –
• Rlog –
• Tlog –

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