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Portmanteau alert

Submitted by jessica on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 01:23.

This is new to me:

Bleg
A blog entry consisting of a request to the readers, such as for information or contributions. A portmanteau of "blog" and "beg". Also called "Lazyweb."

It is also a verb, as evidenced by this Freakonomics posting:

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