Have you been dooced, wilfed or frisked?!

I suppose it was only a matter of time. In the same way mobiles and chat rooms created a whole new dictionary to make txt quik 4 ppl, Yomego has just launched a new social media jargon buster (www.yomego.com/insight.html) to, it says, help people cut through some of the baffling terminology and unnecessary acronyms out there.

So let's have a round of buzzword bingo and see how many of these terms you've come across:

Astroturfing: Not the stuff on football pitches but the act of trying to cheat the online community by creating a fake grassroots ‘buzz’ around a product, service or event. Some companies will get their people to pretend to be advocates or pay a blogger to say nice things but they should beware, most communities will see straight through you and the backlash can be destructive.

Bliki (aka wikilog, wikiweblog or bloki): Stick a wiki and a blog in a blender, hit ‘start’ and voila! A ‘bliki’ is a blog that can be edited wiki-style by its readers or an approved group of collaborators. Interesting tool, silly name

Blog storm or ‘swarm’. This is when a huge number of blog entries suddenly appear around a particular event or topic. Newsreader John Sargeant’s woefully endearing performance on UK TV show Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing with The Stars for our US audience) caused a ‘blog storm’ that dwarfed the activity around 9/11. Blog storms now regularly force stories into mainstream media.

Chicklet: Small, often orange buttons which are links to web feeds such as RSS and Atom. It’s like buying a different make of car - never noticed them before, now they’re everywhere.

Dooced: (v.) To slag off your employer and lose your job as a result. Named after American blogger Heather Armstrong (blog name Dooce) who was fired in 2002 for shouting her mouth off.

Easter eggs: (1) All packaging and no chocolate or (2) Secret messages or graphics hidden in a computer program for a bit of a joke.

Fisking: A particularly acidic or punchy comment/post, named after journalist Robert Fisk. Apparently, Fisk ‘fisked’ film director Uwe Boll and the latter took him outside for a fist fight. (Boll won. Allegedly)

Flicktion: A collection of pictures on Flickr accompanied by short stories.

Hat tip: A public acknowledgement to someone (or a website) for bringing something to the blogger’s attention.