A word made famous by the blog Google Blogoscoped. The author, Philipp Lenssen created the word and describes it .
"I imagine a blogoscope to be a microscope in blog form, which shows something more detailed."
"I imagine a blogoscope to be a microscope in blog form, which shows something more detailed."
James Xuan: I never knew why Google answers shut down till it was Blogoscoped.
Random Guy: Well why?
James Xuan: Jeesh go and ask some other Blogoscoped power-user or read the blog post.
Random Guy: Well Sooo-ry!
James Xuan: :~)
Random Guy: Did you just pronounce :~)
James Xuan: Sure did!
Random Guy: Wow!
Random Guy: Well why?
James Xuan: Jeesh go and ask some other Blogoscoped power-user or read the blog post.
Random Guy: Well Sooo-ry!
James Xuan: :~)
Random Guy: Did you just pronounce :~)
James Xuan: Sure did!
Random Guy: Wow!
by Anthony Nonymous August 9, 2007
This word invented by Philipp, below is his words
The blog was originally named Googlosophy Blogoscoped ("googlosophy" being the "science of Google"). The name wasn't supposed to sound too serious. I imagine a blogoscope to be a microscope in blog form, which shows something more detailed. And Google Blogoscoped, well, it's like "Google microscoped" (zoomed in to clear detail) I guess. (I don't know if that makes too much sense, and being no native speaker I don't really know what images and associations "microscoped," or "blogoscoped," bring up!) But a little later I changed "Googlosophy" to "Google" after reading through the Google trademark guidelines, which say you're not supposed to use word plays like "googlicious" and stuff...
The blog was originally named Googlosophy Blogoscoped ("googlosophy" being the "science of Google"). The name wasn't supposed to sound too serious. I imagine a blogoscope to be a microscope in blog form, which shows something more detailed. And Google Blogoscoped, well, it's like "Google microscoped" (zoomed in to clear detail) I guess. (I don't know if that makes too much sense, and being no native speaker I don't really know what images and associations "microscoped," or "blogoscoped," bring up!) But a little later I changed "Googlosophy" to "Google" after reading through the Google trademark guidelines, which say you're not supposed to use word plays like "googlicious" and stuff...
I recently asked a native speaker what "blogoscoped" sounds like, 'cause I can't really tell. His answer: when he first saw that the word, he thought of endoscopy/ colonoscopy. So that would mean putting a camera up Google's behind?! Oh well, I think we should switch topics ;)
by Hong Xiaowan August 9, 2007