Blog Terms You Should Know
Mary Bowling | 6 September 2006 |
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.
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