different between blogorrhoea vs blogorrhea

English

Pronunciation

Noun

blogorrhoea (uncountable)

1. (Britain, Australia) Alternative spelling of blogorrhea
   • 2009, Greg Egan, Crystal Nights and Other Stories, Subterranean Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 48:

     Daniel respected Gupta's business acumen, but in the unlikely event that his software ever became conscious, the sheer cruelty of having forced it to wade through the endless tides of blogorrhoea would surely see it turn on its creator and exact a revenge that made The Terminator look like a picnic.

   • 2009, James Jeffrey, "Warming to his theme", The Australian, 23 November 2009:

     Andrew Bolt has been in the grips of blogorrhoea since hackers broke into the Climatic Research Unit's server at the University of East Anglia, releasing thousands of emails revealing what could politely be called a lack of consensus on global warming.

   • 2009, Giles Coren, "Newspapers, dead? Better monetise me now", The Times (UK), 22 August 2009:

     So I need to digitise my “me-ness”, thus making my witless podshout and blogorrhoea uniquely monetisable.

English

Alternative forms

• blogorrhoea (UK, Australia)

Etymology

Blend of blog +? logorrhea, or possibly blog and diarrhea.

Noun

blogorrhea (uncountable)

1. Excessive, compulsive, or stream-of-consciousness blogging, especially over trivial matters.
   • 2004, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, Alpha Books (2004), ?ISBN, page 237:

     Most blogs fail because beginning bloggers don't understand that it's difficult to come up with new content day in and day out. Sure, it's easy enough to post a "Didn't do anything today" lament or a "Don't feel like writing today" sigh. But post too much of this content-free blogorrhea—or, sin of sins in the blogging community, don't post at all for long periods—and your blog is as good as dead.

   • 2006, Michael Idov, "How Sweet Is It?", New York, 1 May 2006:

     It’s a surprisingly robust masthead, considering that the entire operation produces about 1,500 words a day—barely a peep in the days of unrelieved blogorrhea and Web-wide word bloat.

   • 2009, Dennis Baron, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution, Oxford University Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 166:

     Not every blogger writes confessional kiss-and-tell posts or records the dinner menu—the blogosphere is not all blogorrhea and mystery meat.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blogorrhea.