Blogging decoded & demystified
Like all internet formats, weblogs, also known as 'blogs', have developed many terms which may baffle newcomers. The Blogging glossary is a resource for people who want to decode and demystify the jargon they may encounter whilst cruising through the blogosphere.

Although this glossary does not purport to be exhaustive by any means, it is one of the most complete of its kind regarding blog terminology and it is periodically updated. Most of the terms herein really are in use but we must confess that a few are, shall we say, rather whimsical.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR
[Russ.,= self-publishing house]
There is much to find for those who look
The only social market is a free market
The emergent network of tomorrow... but today
·· = not in English
link = Struck out blogs are on 'death watch' and may be removed soon unless updated.
Blogs about blogs
Thus it is written
Made possible by...
 
blog glossary
samizdata.net
 
 
Advocacy blog
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noun. A blog (qv) focused on (typically) political advocacy. Although most blogs are overtly partisan, an advocacy blogs' content will be pointedly structured to deliver an activist message. Advocacy blogs are a sub-set of pundit blogs (qv), but usually have less of a strict emphasis on current news and are more polemical in nature.

Anti-idiotarian
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noun. Someone opposed to a whole raft of political values which are derived from a fundamentally irrational meta-context (world view). Anti-idiotarians can be found across a wide section of the political spectrum and are primarily characterised by vocal rational judgmentalism, generally hawkish sentiments and transcendent loathing of Noam Chomsky.

(coined by Charles Johnson)

Usage: "Like most anti-idiotarians I cannot but marvel as the sight of the Palestinian leadership forming yet another circular firing squad at the first grudging sign of reasonable behaviour by the Israeli government"
- Perry de Havilland.

Also see: Idiotarian, Tranzi, Warblog

Turing test
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technical A Turing Test is a test which determines if the party on the other end of a remote communication is a human or a computer program.

This is germane to blogging because many comment sections on blogs use non-machine readable systems prevent spambots from entering comment spam.