What to call abandoned blogs?
Michael Gay May 20th, 2008
In today’s B&C Station to Station blog, Mike Malone challenges Lost Remote to come up with a term for an abandoned blog. We’re not ones to shy away from a challenge, so loyal readers what would be a catchy term for an abandoned blog? (And no, “Local TV Site Blogs” might indeed be mostly abandoned blogs, but that’s not catchy enough.)
By the way, congrats to Mike on his newborn daughter.
46 Comments Add your own
1. tdc | May 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am
blurd.
flush it.
2. Lidbom | May 20th, 2008 at 10:11 am
A blogsolete?
btw:
I just love this blog oneliner from a swedish blogger two years ago:
“Na, I don’t read any new blogs, I only read vintage blogs.”
3. John | May 20th, 2008 at 10:47 am
slogs.
Like slugs
4. Dave | May 20th, 2008 at 10:48 am
How about “getting-a-life”.
5. Cory | May 20th, 2008 at 10:55 am
stumps
6. Rocker | May 20th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Orphlog?
7. Aaron | May 20th, 2008 at 11:01 am
ablogdone.
8. Rob | May 20th, 2008 at 11:17 am
1. Attention Deficit Disorder.
2. abandonlog.
3. vaporblog.
4. blogsploitation.
5. Blogging wasn’t in my new contract.
9. guy | May 20th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Deadlog…or blag. You know. Becuase they lag behind.
10. Mark Shepherd | May 20th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Bloggone.
11. Dave Martin | May 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
dlog = dead log
plog = past or preserved log
blogrot = rotted blog
12. Mike Escutia | May 20th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Dlog. Short for “deadblog”.
13. sarah | May 20th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Ghost blog?
14. JT | May 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
glog: ghost blog (abandoned websites are called ghost sites, right?)
15. JT | May 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Looks like sarah beat me to it
16. Brent | May 20th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
blogex
bloggedout
blogecy - (like legacy)
that’s it - I am all blogged out!
17. tdc | May 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
bloop.
a more pc version of my previous suggestion?
18. Rico Suave | May 20th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Abandoned blogs have always seemed like the Flying Dutchman to me, condemned to sail aimlessly through the internet, only to be occasionally encountered by an unlucky soul.
I apologize for not having a Web 2.0 modification of the word “blog.”
19. tdc | May 20th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
blunk.
(cyber)space junk.
20. Safran | May 20th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Deserted iLand
21. David Johnson | May 20th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
i like glog, but would spell it ghlog to avoid confusion with swedish drink.
22. David Johnson | May 20th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
interesting thought on this though.. not all blogs need to be continuous. they can just wrap at a natural conclusion. those wouldn’t be considered abandoned.
we’ve been talking around how sites should deal with shelving projects and packages when the time comes, how to archive and still keep the content around as reference.
23. Hal | May 20th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
clogged
24. Anonymous | May 21st, 2008 at 3:01 am
DEFUNCT.
Too many burned braincells vs. chocolate.
25. Tony S | May 21st, 2008 at 4:18 am
I guess blogs get abandoned when its discovered that they really aren’t necessary…
Might be that a word for an obsolete blog might also really be unecessary.
Maybe we should just leave the concept nameless.
Interestingly the British Comedial Hugh Laurie - famous over the pond as Dr Gregory House, invented the term spuffle to refer to the foam covering on a mic.
He searched long and hard for a word to invent and would I think be amused to note that its only ever used in discussions on unecessary words.
For my part I say, extend the use of the word ‘Spuffle’ to cover unecessary words and just call them spuffles.
26. Drew | May 21st, 2008 at 5:23 am
blogends….pronounced as legends
27. Weaver | May 21st, 2008 at 7:02 am
Flog (forgotten)
28. Tim | May 21st, 2008 at 7:25 am
trog - as in TeRminated weblOG
troglodytes would then be those of us that abandoned our blogs. And we already have theme song from way back - Troglodyte (Cave Man) by The Jimmy Castor Bunch
29. PhotogsLounge | May 21st, 2008 at 8:17 am
Call it what it is:
deadblog
although blurd is right on
30. Gorman | May 21st, 2008 at 8:35 am
Dustbunny.
31. Jonathan Putnam | May 21st, 2008 at 8:41 am
wordcrypt?
32. tr | May 21st, 2008 at 9:17 am
Blost…
33. tdc | May 21st, 2008 at 9:29 am
thanks 29.
i kinda like the always witty safran’s ‘deserted iland’.
34. tvrobert | May 21st, 2008 at 9:30 am
BAMIA
Blog
Author
Missing
In
Action
35. Gunner | May 21st, 2008 at 9:49 am
blogofunct, as in blogs now defunct
36. oakling | May 21st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
i think we might be better off just with “abandoned blog”
37. P. Lee | May 21st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I’m a lost toy!
38. hessian | May 21st, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Goo-logs.
Nothing’s ever coming out of them again….
39. Anonymous | May 21st, 2008 at 5:57 pm
So far nobody will ever get to name a feature on a consumer electronics item. Not even ME.
40. Seth Gottlieb | May 21st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
blomby - undead
41. TR | May 21st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Future 404.
42. Ringthorp | May 22nd, 2008 at 8:08 am
Bloglorn
( And for the merely unkempt: bloglect )
43. Chip | May 22nd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I’m diggin’…
404 blog (thx #41 for the ‘404′)
blurnt (burnt blog)
blog rot, or page rot
fossil blog
sundowner, or sundowner blog
petrified blog, or Medusa blog
sewage blog
ass blog, or butt blog
DBZ (Dead Blog Zone)
if blog=dead (
un-index blog;
)
44. TR | May 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
turning #40 around …
zomblog.
(undead … it may be dead but until the site’s taken down it stalks the interwebs …)
45. Anonymous | May 26th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Not very dang good at keeping an audience
/fin
46. web owner of cyberspacejunk.com | June 13th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Hi, I’m collecting url’s of websites with the term cyberspacejunk in it. Your site uses the term and therefore you are being added to my list of links. I would also like your permission to enter you into a contest to be drawn once a year. (Next drawing is June 1, 2009) The prize to be won is: $20 Can. to help towards your domain renewal.
Would you be interested?
You have my e-mail … please get back to me.
Your link will be displayed on my site: June 16, 2008
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