burb/blurg/blog?

[Stahlke, Herbert F.W.]

Tore Janson's A Natural History of Latin (Oxford 2004) states (166):

A recent coining in English is burb, used first as an abbreviation of
suburb and later to mean a region of a space, especially on the
internet, where numerous special interest groups have established burbs
to exchange news and thoughts.

"burb" gets 73k hits on Google, including special interest group sites,
reference to suburban life "burb pants", and a number of "burb cloths"
for babies.  In one entry, both "burb" and "burp" appear in the same
blurb to describe this baby accessory.

Herb