Last night, after the exhilerating Write Here, Write Now Alumni Reading, I was talking with Gregg Wilhelm, president of the CityLit Project when he coined a new Web 2.0-ish buzzword — bludos, for “blog kudos.” In keeping with the trend toward ever-decreasing life cycles for webstuff, the buzzword flashed into being, blazed its path of glory, and burned itself out before anyone had a chance — or even a need — to freshen our drinks.

In memoriam, then, here we recap the brief but glorious life of bludos:

8:35:30 — Gregg first utters the word “bludos.” The other people in the conversation approve of the term and try it out in assorted sentences.

8:36:10 — First use of “bludos” as a verb, also by Gregg, as in: “He bludoed me.” Conversants explore the use of the term in various tenses (e.g., “He would have been bludoing.”)

8:36:53 — First use of “bludo-” as a prefix, as in “bludorific,” “bludacious,” etc. Conversants explore, and then quickly exhaust, the possibilities.

8:37:27 — First ironic use of “bludos” in air quotes.

8:37: 45 — “Bludos” declared to be “so 8:35.” Conversation moves on.

Farewell, bludos. We hardly knew ye.

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