Blogistan

Proper noun

Blogistan

1. (informal) Blogs of Iran (where the suffix -stan originated) and nearby regions.
   • Blogistan is a newer coinage, appearing after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. By attacking to blog the suffix -stan, which means "land" or "place of" in Farsi and related languages, the word successfully conveys the idea that blogs in Blogistan are concerned with matters in the Stans...[2006, Grant Barrett, “Tongue in Groove: The Blogistan Lexicon”, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
2. (informal) Blogs, collectively.
   • The Boston Globe's Alex Beam dismisses the blogosphere with typical liberal hauteur: "Welcome to Blogistan, the Internet-based journalistic medium where no thought goes unpublished, no long-out-of-print book goes unhawked, and no fellow 'blogger,' no matter how outré, goes unpraised."2006, Joan Gorham, Mass Media, page 34