Blog Terms You Should Know
Host | 6 September 2006 | Comments Off
The term “blog” is short for “weblog”, which is an online content management system where posts appear in reverse chronological order – the newest posts are first. Blogs originated as single-column journals characterized by a personality. They’re often frequently updated and include a section for reader comments after each post. They’ve matured and are used for a huge variety of purposes. They often take on the look of a traditional website or are incorporated into a website.
Here are a few of the terms you should be aware of that have sprung up around blogs and blogging:
Blogosphere – the collective online world of blogs and bloggers
Commenter – a person who leaves comments on a blog
Comment Spam – comments posted to a blog that are blatently commericial in nature and/or made for the sole purpose of gaining a link
Spambots – automated programs that post comment spam to unprotected blogs
Trackback – a system that alerts another blogger (by means of a ping) when you link to them
Ping – to automatically send a small packet of data out to actuate something, usually a trackback
Blog Roll – a collection of links on a blog, pointing to other blogs – it usually contains the blogger’s recommendations of other blogs to read
Blogstipation – writer’s block for bloggers
Flame – a hostile attack, often of a personal nature, made using a blog
Sock Puppet – a fake persona used by a blogger to defend him or herself online and/or attack critics
Vlog – a video blog. Used as a verb, it’s vlogging. A vlogger is one who blogs by video
Mary Bowling – Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc.
