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A
Atom: Another popular feed format developed as an alternative to RSS.
Autocasting: Automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from RSS feeds.
Audioblog: A blog where the posts consist mainly of voice recordings sent by mobile phone, sometimes with some short text message added for metadata purposes. (cf. podcasting)
Autocasting: Automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from RSS feeds.
Audioblog: A blog where the posts consist mainly of voice recordings sent by mobile phone, sometimes with some short text message added for metadata purposes. (cf. podcasting)
B
Blawg: A law blog.
Bleg: An entry in a blog requesting information or contributions.
Blog Carnival: A blog article that contains links to other articles covering a specific topic. Most blog carnivals are hosted by a rotating list of frequent contributors to the carnival, and serve to both generate new posts by contributors and highlight new bloggers posting matter in that subject area.
Blog client: (weblog client) is software to manage (post, edit) blogs from operating system with no need to launch a web browser. A typical blog client has an editor, a spell-checker and a few more options that simplify content creation and editing.
Blog publishing service: A software which is used to create the blog. Some of the most popular are WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type and Joomla.
Blogger: Person who runs a blog. Also blogger.com, a popular blog hosting web site. Rarely: weblogger.
Bloggies: One of the most popular blog awards.
Blogroll: A list of other blogs that a blogger might recommend by providing links to them (usually in a sidebar list).
Blogosphere: All blogs, or the blogging community.
Blogware: A category of software which consists of a specialized form of a Content Management System: specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs.
The BOBs: The largest international blog awards.
Bleg: An entry in a blog requesting information or contributions.
Blog Carnival: A blog article that contains links to other articles covering a specific topic. Most blog carnivals are hosted by a rotating list of frequent contributors to the carnival, and serve to both generate new posts by contributors and highlight new bloggers posting matter in that subject area.
Blog client: (weblog client) is software to manage (post, edit) blogs from operating system with no need to launch a web browser. A typical blog client has an editor, a spell-checker and a few more options that simplify content creation and editing.
Blog publishing service: A software which is used to create the blog. Some of the most popular are WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type and Joomla.
Blogger: Person who runs a blog. Also blogger.com, a popular blog hosting web site. Rarely: weblogger.
Bloggies: One of the most popular blog awards.
Blogroll: A list of other blogs that a blogger might recommend by providing links to them (usually in a sidebar list).
Blogosphere: All blogs, or the blogging community.
Blogware: A category of software which consists of a specialized form of a Content Management System: specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs.
The BOBs: The largest international blog awards.
C
Catblogging (traditionally “Friday catblogging”): The practice
of posting pictures of cats, in typical cat postures and expressions,
on a blog.
Collaborative blog: A blog (usually focused on a single issue or political stripe) on which multiple users enjoy posting permission. Also known as group blog.
Comment spam: Like e-mail spam. Robot “spambots” flood a blog with advertising in the form of bogus comments. A serious problem that requires bloggers and blog platforms to have tools to exclude some users or ban some addresses in comments.
Collaborative blog: A blog (usually focused on a single issue or political stripe) on which multiple users enjoy posting permission. Also known as group blog.
Comment spam: Like e-mail spam. Robot “spambots” flood a blog with advertising in the form of bogus comments. A serious problem that requires bloggers and blog platforms to have tools to exclude some users or ban some addresses in comments.
F
Feeds: See RSS Feeds.
Fisking: To rebut a blog entry in a line-by-line fashion.
Flog: A portmanteau of ”fake” and “blog”. A blog that’s ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.
Fisking: To rebut a blog entry in a line-by-line fashion.
Flog: A portmanteau of ”fake” and “blog”. A blog that’s ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.
H
Health blog: A blog that covers health topics, events
and/or related content of the health industry and the general
community.In short any thing related to health.
L
Legal blog: A blog about law.
Lifelog: capture their entire lives, or large portions of their lives.
Litblog: A blog that focuses primarily on the topic of literature.
Lifelog: capture their entire lives, or large portions of their lives.
Litblog: A blog that focuses primarily on the topic of literature.
M
Milblog: Term for blogs written by members or
veterans of any branch of military service - Army, Navy, Air Force,
or Marines. A contraction of military and blog.
Moblog: A portmanteau of “mobile” and “blog”. A blog featuring posts sent mainly by mobile phone, using SMS or MMS messages. They are often photoblogs.
Mommy blog: A blog featuring discussions especially about home and family.
Multiblog: A blog constructed as a conversation between more than two people.
Moblog: A portmanteau of “mobile” and “blog”. A blog featuring posts sent mainly by mobile phone, using SMS or MMS messages. They are often photoblogs.
Mommy blog: A blog featuring discussions especially about home and family.
Multiblog: A blog constructed as a conversation between more than two people.
P
Permalink: Permanent link. The unique URL of a single post. Use this when you want to link to a post somewhere.
Phlog: Type of blog utilising the Gopher protocol instead of HTTP
Photoblog: A portmanteau of “photo” and “blog”.
Photoblog: A blog mostly containing photos, posted constantly and chronologically.
Pingback: The alert in the TrackBack system that notifies the original poster of a blog post when someone else writes an entry concerning the original post.
Podcasting: Contraction of “iPod” and “broadcasting” (but not for iPods only). Posting audio and video material on a blog and its RSS feed, for digital players.
Post: An entry written and published to a blog.
Post Slug: For blogs with common language URLs, the post slug is the portion of the URL that represents the post. Example: http://domain.com/2008/01/this-is-the-post-slug
Phlog: Type of blog utilising the Gopher protocol instead of HTTP
Photoblog: A portmanteau of “photo” and “blog”.
Photoblog: A blog mostly containing photos, posted constantly and chronologically.
Pingback: The alert in the TrackBack system that notifies the original poster of a blog post when someone else writes an entry concerning the original post.
Podcasting: Contraction of “iPod” and “broadcasting” (but not for iPods only). Posting audio and video material on a blog and its RSS feed, for digital players.
Post: An entry written and published to a blog.
Post Slug: For blogs with common language URLs, the post slug is the portion of the URL that represents the post. Example: http://domain.com/2008/01/this-is-the-post-slug
R
RSS: Really Simple Syndication is a family of Web
feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog
entries, news headlines or podcasts.
RSS aggregator: Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on their favourite blogs. Also called a reader, or feedreader.
RSS feed: The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of a post, or the entire post.
RSS aggregator: Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on their favourite blogs. Also called a reader, or feedreader.
RSS feed: The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of a post, or the entire post.
S
Search engine friendly URLs: or, for short, SEF URLs, implemented with a Rewrite engine.
Spam blog: A blog which is composed of spam. A Spam blog or “any blog whose creator doesn’t add any written value.”
Slashdot effect: The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or other website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also Digg, Metafilter, Boing Boing, Instapundit and others) sending huge amounts of temporary traffic that often slow down the server.
Subscribe: The term used when a blogs feed is added to a feed reader like Bloglines or Google. Some blogging platforms have internal subscriptions, this allows readers to receive notification when there are new posts in a blog.
Spam blog: A blog which is composed of spam. A Spam blog or “any blog whose creator doesn’t add any written value.”
Slashdot effect: The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or other website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also Digg, Metafilter, Boing Boing, Instapundit and others) sending huge amounts of temporary traffic that often slow down the server.
Subscribe: The term used when a blogs feed is added to a feed reader like Bloglines or Google. Some blogging platforms have internal subscriptions, this allows readers to receive notification when there are new posts in a blog.
T
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Templates: Templates, used on the “back end” of a blog that work together to handle information and present it on a blog.
Theme: CSS based code that when applied to the templates will result in visual element changes to the blog. The theme, as a whole, is also referred to as a blog design.
TrackBack: A system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a ‘ping’ between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert.
Theme: CSS based code that when applied to the templates will result in visual element changes to the blog. The theme, as a whole, is also referred to as a blog design.
TrackBack: A system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a ‘ping’ between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert.
V
Vlog: A video blog; a vlogger is a video blogger (e.g. someone who records himself interviewing people of a certain field).
W
Warblog: A blog devoted mostly or wholly to covering news events concerning an ongoing war.
Weblog: The unshortened version of ‘blog’.
Weblog: The unshortened version of ‘blog’.
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