blabbermouth n : someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale]

English

Etymology

blabber + mouth

Noun

1. a gossip

   If it weren't for that blabbermouth Sally, the principal would never have known we did it.

Blabbermouth.net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews. Blabbermouth.net was founded and run by Borivoj Krgin in March 2000, although the website was officially launched in October 2001, and the record label Roadrunner Records began hosting it in December 2001. Users can post comments to selected news articles and album reviews, either in response to other user comments or in response to the article itself. This has attracted trolls and criticism from many musicians.

History

Founder Borivoj Krgin came up with the concept of Blabbermouth in January 2000. Robert Kampf, a friend of Krgin who runs Century Media Records, was staying with Krgin in New York and set up a meeting with Gunter Ford of World Management. During the meeting, Ford suggested an idea for a "heavy metal portal," a site which would offer news, merchandise and CD reviews to get record labels to sell their products through the site — Ford wanted Kampf to be involved. Krgin disliked the idea and wished for a site that offered around-the-clock news as he thought that no good news sites existed.

Krgin began researching how to develop and host his own website two months after the meeting. After a year Krgin felt comfortable going "live." The initial "primitive" version of the site was launched on March 3, 2001. In October of the same year Monte Conner, a friend of Krgin, and a Roadrunner Records artist and repertoire approached Krgin for the idea to host the site on Roadrunner servers. This way, Krgin could focus on the content rather than the technical aspects. In October 2001, Blabbermouth.net was officially launched.

In September 2006, Krgin claims to have performed a cleanup of Blabbermouth.net's user comments and to have adopted a moderation policy. Prior to this, in his own words, "countless abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic and threatening comments" had been posted on the site since the "comments" feature was implemented in early 2002.

Traffic

Blabbermouth.net is visited by more than 1,000,000 (one million) unique users each month, and it has an average of 80,000 unique visitors per day, based on WebTrends. For the first three months of 2007 0.00540% of people who use the internet have visited the www.blabbermouth.net website giving it an Alexa rank of 46,440.. However, this number only covers the visits to www.blabbermouth.net, which is a small portion of the website's traffic (since the actual web site is located at www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net, which is not included separately in the Alexa rankings). Blabbermouth has 56,000 registered users.

References

External links

• Blabbermouth.net

babbler, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer, chatterer, delator, fink, gabber, gossip, informer, jabberer, magpie, narc, peacher, prater, prattler, snitch, snitcher, spy, squealer, stool pigeon, stoolie, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale, whistle-blower