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James Drogan, on August 30th, 2003 at 9:23 am Said:

Blogger Pod

Brian Sullivan's Random Musings, on August 30th, 2003 at 10:23 am Said:

Plural Nouns for Bloggers

Dave Winer and David Weinberger

TDavid, on August 30th, 2003 at 10:28 am Said:

a swarm of bloggers
blogsquatters
the blog collective

AKMA, on August 30th, 2003 at 10:37 am Said:

I doubt anyone will do better than a “roll” or a “glob” of bloggers; I’m not even going to venture a try.

Steven Garrity, on August 30th, 2003 at 10:38 am Said:

An archive of webloggers.
A tripple of webloggers.
A folder of webloggers.
A mob of bloggers.

Simon Fodden, on August 30th, 2003 at 10:45 am Said:

A jam of bloggers
A raft of bloggers

Frank Paynter, on August 30th, 2003 at 10:52 am Said:

A postillion of bloggers?
A postage of bloggers? pronounced post-ajj

Pascale Soleil, on August 30th, 2003 at 11:09 am Said:

A rant of bloggers

Pascale Soleil, on August 30th, 2003 at 11:10 am Said:

An aggregation of bloggers!

Dave Winer, on August 30th, 2003 at 12:44 pm Said:

Boutique

Wray Cummings, on August 30th, 2003 at 1:15 pm Said:

A bale? If endless self reference is a defining quality perhaps a blow of bloggers?

Or maximize self reference — a blog of bloggers.

Morten W. Petersen, on August 30th, 2003 at 2:53 pm Said:

A petition of bloggers

Dave Winer, on August 30th, 2003 at 3:06 pm Said:

A Chinese restaurant filled with bloggers.

Dave Winer, on August 30th, 2003 at 3:07 pm Said:

A cup of bouillion of bloggers.

Dave Winer, on August 30th, 2003 at 3:08 pm Said:

A blog of bloggers.

Dave Winer, on August 30th, 2003 at 3:12 pm Said:

A barnyard full of bloggers.

Simon Fodden, on August 30th, 2003 at 3:29 pm Said:

A hogget of bloggers

Ingrid Jones, on August 30th, 2003 at 5:22 pm Said:

A web of bloggers

Longwall, on August 30th, 2003 at 6:06 pm Said:

A litany of bloggers.

Or an alternative, a rogation of bloggers.

Try the slightly kinder, a scroll of bloggers.

bob stepno, on August 30th, 2003 at 7:47 pm Said:

Sometimes it seems to be a babel of bloggers, other times a boggle of bloggers… a bloomin’ buzzin’ confusion of bloggers (apologies to William James)… but on good days, I’d shorten that to just “a buzz of bloggers,” or even, with so many good ones sprouting up, “a bloom of bloggers.”

graywyvern, on August 30th, 2003 at 8:52 pm Said:

A glob of bloggers!

Russell Gum, on August 30th, 2003 at 10:50 pm Said:

A gaggle of bloggers. As in gaggle of geese. Geese are loud, very social, and make great watch animals, if something is wrong or unusual they let you know.

Of course there are all the military terms for those militant bloggers, squad, platoon, division, army etc.

For those who think bloggging is black magic a coven of bloggers might be appropriate.

For geeks, a stack of bloggers seems appropriate.

lisa, on August 30th, 2003 at 10:59 pm Said:

a web of bloggers
a warp of bloggers
a weft of bloggers

a post-it of bloggers

a pledget of bloggers

a wad of bloggers

a chase of bloggers

a plethora of bloggers

a pundit of bloggers

Anonymous, on August 30th, 2003 at 11:46 pm Said:

a posse of bloggers

Stu Savory, on August 31st, 2003 at 1:39 am Said:

a btree of bloggers.

Besides being a balanced indexed file structure,
a B-tree is a B-log when it was still alive.

Stu

Phil Wolff, on August 31st, 2003 at 5:15 am Said:

She joined an extravagance of bloggers for dinner, only to find the conversation centering around another blognet. An effusion of bloggers was sitting at another table and were willing to share the spicy noodles with her shpritz. Her tribe decided to stick with rice.

So: extravagance, blognet, effusion, shpritz, tribe.

Stan Holstein, on August 31st, 2003 at 7:50 am Said:

A blost of bloggers.

blost = blog + post

;-)

degustibus, on August 31st, 2003 at 11:56 am Said:

Blahblahblah

Blahblah

Blah

of bloggers

(bebop)

degustibus, on August 31st, 2003 at 12:02 pm Said:

Burp

Belch

Borborygmi

of bloggers

(boogiewoogie)

Már Örlygsson, on August 31st, 2003 at 4:40 pm Said:

A bunch of bloggers.

Gary Turner, on August 31st, 2003 at 6:07 pm Said:

an aggravation of bloggers

Sean Neakums, on September 1st, 2003 at 10:05 am Said:

A slag of bloggers.

Jon Husband, on September 1st, 2003 at 12:59 pm Said:

A net of bloggers ?

A set of bloggers ?

A blossom of bloggers ?

Jon Husband, on September 1st, 2003 at 1:00 pm Said:

A net of bloggers

A set of bloggers

A blossom of bloggers, who blogsome.

Marie, on September 1st, 2003 at 2:46 pm Said:

Exile on Blog St.™

Martin Sewell, on September 1st, 2003 at 8:41 pm Said:

A banal of bloggers?
A self-indulgence of bloggers?
A conceit of bloggers?

Tim, on September 2nd, 2003 at 10:46 pm Said:

I don’t know the plural, but they get to the mill via a blog flue, that’s for sure.

Phil Wolff, on September 3rd, 2003 at 7:34 pm Said:

a pyre of bloggers.

a tangle of bloggers.

a brood of bloggers.

a kiss of bloggers.

a braze of bloggers.

Paul Andrews, on September 3rd, 2003 at 8:31 pm Said:

A flog of blogs comes to mind, but as for bloggers, a lager of bloggers? I’m thinking of one of Dave’s gatherings…

Stephen Downes, on September 3rd, 2003 at 10:12 pm Said:

Well, it was just an off-hand comment — mind you, those are the best kind. The list is good, but none of the collective nouns offered so far tops (IMHO) ‘bevy’. And, given that ‘bevy’ was first, somebody had better come up with something better in a hurry, or we will be stuck with it. Not that I mind, of course. ;)

Marie, on September 4th, 2003 at 1:25 am Said:

How about, a bath of bloggers?

Marty, on September 5th, 2003 at 1:26 am Said:

an ego of bloggers
a poke of bloggers
a bastion of bloggers
an extremity of bloggers
a pillory of bloggers
an effluence of bloggers
a putrescence of bloggers
a plague of bloggers

Do you notice a theme here? I’m finding it kind of hard to beat that string of collectives that began with “viagra” a few comments back….

martin lloyd, on September 5th, 2003 at 12:26 pm Said:

Surely

“A disagreement of bloggers”

kind of like a parliament of rooks, but less civilised

Brian, on September 5th, 2003 at 7:22 pm Said:

How about a booger of bloggers?

Blogosfera.org, on September 6th, 2003 at 7:23 am Said:

¿Panda de bloggers?

Hace poco se discutía en Joho the Blog cómo se debería denominar a un conjunto de webloggers. En el mismo

xian, on September 6th, 2003 at 6:22 pm Said:

A pride of bloggers.

Oh, and Dave you might want to delete the comment spam in the middle of this thread.

Ingrid Jones, on September 7th, 2003 at 8:33 am Said:

Tribe is an interesting word and a bevy of bloggers at BloggerCon 2003 sounds great but Blogger.com has more than a bevy of bloggers.
Blogger has a wwworld of bloggers.
Harvard has a host of bloggers.
Joi Ito has a posse of bloggers.
Dave has a barnyard of bloggers (his words!)
James Moore/Dean campaign have an army of bloggers.
Microsoft has a bunch (or regiment) of bloggers.

Stairs, on September 7th, 2003 at 3:21 pm Said:

a gaggle of geese

a murder of crows

a BOTHER of bloggers

David, on September 12th, 2003 at 4:15 pm Said:

A link of bloggers, of course…

Mishalak, on October 12th, 2003 at 3:25 pm Said:

Slight correction to Martin Lloyd, it is a parliament of owls and a building of rooks.

Though I think is suggestion of “A disagreement of bloggers” is quite fine. The trouble with “bevy” and “pride” and many others is that they have been used many times before. The suggestion of “ego” is not bad, but “pundit” only works if the word blogger will only be to refer to the political sort. Though it is quite amusing.

My own humble suggestion is, “A Recount of Bloggers.” Though the suggestion of “A Rant of Bloggers” may be better than my own.

Peter, on November 6th, 2003 at 8:14 pm Said:

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Emil, on March 14th, 2004 at 3:27 pm Said:

What about a blather of bloggers
- no offence ;-)

Judson, on July 25th, 2004 at 9:01 pm Said:

aggregation has to win I think. or swarm maybe.

the hemogoblin, on July 25th, 2004 at 10:16 pm Said:

I’d have to say “The Blag Collective” is the best one.

Edward Hague, on August 13th, 2004 at 6:47 pm Said:

A Snatch of Nubiles

Jackalope, on August 14th, 2004 at 5:43 am Said:

The simple answer is staring us int he face. Like the American Legion, bloggers should come in posts.

A post of bloggers.

Josi Denise, on September 21st, 2004 at 4:52 am Said:

great joy being here…

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Sarahlynn, on April 2nd, 2005 at 3:08 pm Said:

Why? Every other group that has a specific term, like a troop of actors or a pride of lions, functions as a group. Sure, bloggers interact with other bloggers via comments, links, blogrolls, and conventions. But by the very nature of the medium, blogging is a relatively individual activity. When I blog, I’m sitting alone at my computer writing my thoughts, not acting in concert with a group.

glenn, on April 30th, 2006 at 9:22 am Said:

How about

a feed of bloggers?

Glenn.

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