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03/15/2005: "Common Blogging Terms"

Description: Explains the language of Blogs and Blogging

Common Blog and Blogging terms

Blogging, like any hobby, has developed something of a specialised vocabulary. The following is an attempt to explain a few of the more common phrases and words, including etymologies when not obvious.


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.
Blog feed
The XML-based file in which the blog hosting software places a machine-readable version of the blog so that it may be "syndicated" for further distribution on the web. Formats such as RSS and ATOM are used to structure the XML file.
Blogfoo
Statements written with an air of generality while obviously pointed at a specific person or group of people.
Blogroll
A list of blogs. Usually a blogger features a list of his favorite blogs in the sidebar of his blog. This lists can be made dynamic using services like BlogRolling.
Blogorrhoea
A contraction of "blog" and "logorrhoea", meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.
Blog site
The web location (URL) of a blog, which may be either a dedicated domain, a sub-domain, or embedded within a web site.
Blogsite
Sometimes confused with a simple blog or blog site, but a blogsite is a web site which combines blog feeds from a variety of sources, as well as non-blog sources, and adds significant value over the raw blog feeds.
Blogsnob
A person who refuses to respond to comments on their blog from people outside their circle of friends.
Moblog
Abbr. Mobile blog. A blog featuring posts sent mainly by cellular phone, using SMS or MMS messages. They are usually photoblogs.
Ping
This is related to the trackback process. See Trackback below.
Permalink
Permanent link. The unique URL of a single post. Use this when you want to link to a post somewhere.
Trackback. In a nutshell, TrackBack was designed to provide a method of notification between websites: it is a method of person A saying to person B, "This is something you may be interested in." To do that, person A sends a TrackBack ping to person B.

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