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Pundit blog

noun. A blog (qv) focused on news punditry. The bulk of a pundit blogs’ content will be dissection of, or pointers to, stories currently running in the established media. Pundit blogs are largely the...

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Pilger

verb. To destroy facts in a ‘John Pilger’ fashion, to ‘pillage’ the truth, poor or no fact checking, wild accusations, conspiracy theories etc.. (coined by Auberon Waugh)

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Permalink

1. noun. A link to a specific article in the archives of a blog, which will remain valid after the article is no longer listed on the blog’s front page (i.e after it has archived). 2. noun....

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Progblog

noun. A ‘Progressive Weblog’. A blog expressing various left wing political views. (coined by Madeleine Begun)

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Ping

1. noun. A ping is a system administrator tool that is an automated packet of information (64 bytes) sent through a network to another to establish the status of a target system. 2. verb. To ping...

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Pornblogs

noun. Pornographic blogs (obviously!)

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Plog

1. noun & verb. A project blog. A blog set up to chronicle a particular (business) project. 2. noun. On-line bookseller Amazon.com has experimented with offering its customers ‘personalised...

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Plogging

1. verb. Short for presidential blogging (as in the president or CXO of a company) which bypasses the entire PR apparatus, as well as the traditionally blah forms of published speech by CXOs. Think of...

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Podcasting

verb. To record (usually spoken narrative) audio files (usually in MP3 format) and make them available on-line so that they can be downloaded and listened to rather like an ‘on-demand’ radio show....

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