We haven't had a new buzzword for days, but maybe tumblelogs will make it. As Kottke explains:
A tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. They remind me of an older style of blogging, back when people did sites by hand, before Movable Type made post titles all but mandatory, blog entries turned into short magazine articles, and posts belonged to a conversation distributed throughout the entire blogosphere. Robot Wisdom and Bifurcated Rivets are two older style weblogs that feel very much like these tumblelogs with minimal commentary, little cross-blog chatter, the barest whiff of a finished published work, almost pure editing...really just a way to quickly publish the "stuff" that you run across every day on the web.
Kottke's examples include "Anarchaia (which seems to have been the first one), Church Burning [and] Mikael's Tumblelog".
Tracking back a bit, however, there's a Marcus Vorwaller post from September 11:
Here's something to keep an eye on - Tumblelogs. Basically a blog with quick posts consisting of pictures, quotes, links and whatever else is on the mind of the author. Tumblelogging is bound to grow–as of today there are 540 Google results for "tumblelog." I predict 10,000 within 6 months. I'm not sure of the origin of the word, but the best I can tell it was coined here. The best example (by far) is the gorgeous Projectionist website… a site that has forever changed the way I think about blogging. Amazing.
Seems we're already up to the 17,000 mark....
