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In every profession or industry, each has its jargons. Like in accounting jargon, we have the famous asset, liabilities and capital. Although these have been commonly used, even on every day’s conversation. But still, their definition is somewhat different on what accountants meant.

In blogging, they have their own gobbledygook. According to Technorati, millions of blogs entries have been created in 2006 and thousands of blogs coming online everyday. Time will come that everyone of us will speak the same language, the blog tongue.

Disclaimer: This is NOT a substitute to a Blog Dictionary. I just made all the terminologies more layman’s terms as possible.

A

Adsense, Adbrite, CJ, Chitka, Blogads – popular affiliate programs to generate money from your blogs.

A-List –  the top bloggers who influence the blogosphere.

Anonoblog – by an anonymous blogger

Atom – Another popular feed format developed as an alternative to RSS.

Archives – A collection of all your posts on one page. Can be categorized by month etc.

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

b5media, 9rules – examples of popular blogging networks. Collection of blogs and bloggers providing great content, with revenue sharing sometimes.

Blammer - Blog spammer

Blargon - Also called Blogssary. Blogging slang and glossary. What I am telling you now.

Blaudience – your blog audience.

Blawg – blogged by lawyer / related to legal stuff

Bleg – An entry in a blog requesting information or contributions.

Blego – Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth

Blog – short form for weblog

Blog Carnival – Links to other articles covering a specific topic.

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 Day – 31 August. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting and tell them. more

Blog hopping – jumping from one blog to another

Blog of Note – a recommended blog. more

Blog Tipping – Compliment 3 blogs on day 1 of every month. more

Blogathon – update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe collect sponsorships. more

Blogathy – I do not want to post today and I do not care about it

Blogburst – Syndicating your feed to top publishers.

Blogcasting – the blog and the podcast merged into a single website.

Blogebrity – a famous blogger.

Blogerati – the blogosphere intelligentsia.

Blogexplosion, Blogclicker - popular blog traffic generation / exchange services.

Blogger – Person who runs a blog. Also blogger.com, a popular blog hosting web site. Rarely: weblogger.

Blogger bash – a blogger party

Blogger code – a way to describe different types of bloggers. more

Bloggerel – the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog

Bloggernacle – Blogs written by and for Mormons (a portmanteau of “blog” and “Tabernacle)”. Generally refers to faithful Mormon bloggers and sometimes refers to a specific grouping of faithful Mormon bloggers.

Bloggeropoly – professional blogger recruiting agency. more

Bloggies – One of the most popular blog awards.

Blogging – the act of posting on blogs

Bloggoggle – Directory of Blogging Professionals

BlogHer – where the women bloggers are. At Blogher.org

Blogiday- you get fed up and take a holiday from blogging

Blogiversary – your blog birthday

Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, Kinja, – are News Aggregators that display content from syndicated Web content from web feed. Can be configured online or downloaded on your desktop. Like . Also called RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators or news reader

Blognoscenti – especially knowledgable bloggers

Blogoholic – addicted to blogging

Blogonomics – blogging conference on a Blog Cruise in 2006. more

Blogophobia – Fear of blogs and blogging.

Blogopotamus – A long long blog post

Blogorific = blogtastic – something which a blogger says is terrific

Blogorrhea – unusually high output of articles

Blogosphere – All blogs, or the blogging community. Also called blogistan or, more rarely, blogspace.

Blogroach – A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content

Blogroll – A list of other blogs that a blogger might recommend by providing links to them (usually in a sidebar list).

Blogsit – maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave

Blogsite - A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources

Blogsnob – refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.

Blogspot – free Blogger hosting blog at name.blogspot.com

Blogstar- blogger running a popular blog

Blogstipation – writer’s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog about?

Blogstorm – a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.

Blogther – a fellow blogger.

BlogThis – a function allows a blogger to blog the entry they a reading

Blogvertising – Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.

Blogware - A category of software which consists of a specialized form of a Content Management System specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs.

Blook - a book created from a blog.

Blurker – a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.

Boing Boinged – link posted on boingboing.net driving huge traffic to your blog

BSM – Blogstream media. from most heavily trafficked blogs.

The BOBs – The largest international blog awards.

C

Captcha – short for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. Those word and letter verification images you need to type in to show you are human and not a bot. Helful to block automated spam comments. more

Categories – A collection of topic specific posts

Celeblog – focused on a celebrity.

CEOBlog – run by a chief executive officer.

Clog Blog – written in Dutch and/or in Holland.

CMS – short for Content management system. software used to publish and manage websites.

CoComment - Tracks your comments across different platforms and follow conversations

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.

Commentariat - The community of those leaving comments.

Commenter - someone who leaves remarks / comments

Comments - enabling readers to leave their remarks

Creative Commons – licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.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.

D

Dark Blog- A non-public blog

Dashboard – When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.

Del.icio.us, furl, spurl – share social bookmarks.

Desktop Blogging Client – An off-line blog management (posting, editing and archiving) tool

Digged – link posted on digg.com driving huge traffic to your blog

Dooced – lost a job because of blog entries. To Dooce.

Doppelblogger – plagiarize the content of another blogger

E

Edu-blog – education oriented blog.

EFF – short for Electronic Frontier Foundation. A nonprofit group working to protect blogger rights.

Event blog – focussed on an event

Expandable post summaries – show a small teaser part of the post on the index page that link to the full post. more

F

Farked – link posted on fark.com driving huge traffic to your blog

Feedblitz, Zokooda – Email subscriptions and newletter tools.

Feedburner – a professional feed management system

Feeds – RSS Feeds.

Fisking – To rebut a blog entry in a line-by-line fashion.

Flickr, Imageshack – photo sharing service. Host images on your blog

Flog – A portmanteau of “fake” and “blog”. A blog that’s ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department; A food blog; sometimes, a blog dedicated to food porn.

Footer – the most bottom part of the blog usually listing navigation and copyright statements

FTP – short for file transfer protocol. Transferring file to and fro from your web host using FTP tools like FilezillaFisking – 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; A food blog; sometimes, a blog dedicated to food porn.

Feeds - RSS Feeds.

G

GAD – Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your adsense earnings. more

Greasemonkey - a firefox web browser extension that can alter the functionality of any website using specific scripts.

Group blog -  with multiple contributing bloggers.

H

Haloscan- free trackback service

Hat Tip- acknowledgement of the source that tipped you the news.

Header - the topmost part of the blog usually listing the blog title.

Hitnosis – Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased

I

Index page – the front page fo the blog

Instalanche - link posted on instapundit.com driving huge traffic to your blog

J

J-blog – A journalist blog; A blog with a Jewish focus.

Jump – the continuation of a the story on another page to preserve space on index page.

K

K2, Blix – names of some popular wordpress themes.

Kittyblogger – writing about cats.

Klog – used by company knowledge workers. by Kloggers

L

Linguablog – about linguistics, translation etc.

Linkbaiting – a habit of writing good content with the sole purpose of getting it linked from multiple sites.

Live Bookmarks – a firefox web browser feature. Update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.

LiveJournal – free blogging tool by SixApart

M

Metablog – a blog about blogging.

Metablogging – writing articles about blogging

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.

Mint, Mybloglog, Measuremap, Analytics – site traffic tracking tools.

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.

Movable Type – paid blogging tool by SixApart

Movlogs – mobile video blogs.

MSM – Mainstream Media, or old media like newspapers etc.

Multiblog – A blog constructed as a conversation between more than two people

N

Navbar – a navigation bar usually seen on top of Blogger blogspot hosted blogs.

O

Odeo, Podnova – are Podcatchers, a form of aggregator used to automatically download podcasts and can sometimes transfer a portable media player. Like

OPML – short for Outline Processor Markup Language. It is an XML format for outlines. Easily import and export multiple blog subscriptions between different rss aggregators.

P

Page Rank – Google measures of importance of a page which reflects in its rankings.

Pageflakes, Newsvine – Track multiple feeds on a single page by modules.

Permalink - 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

Photoblogging – a blog predominantly using and focusing on photographs and images. Photoblogs are created by photobloggers

Photocast- a photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.

Photofeed- a web feed with image enclosures.

Ping – Short for Packet Internet Grouper. Blog and ping helps to notify other blog tracking tools for updates, changes and trackbacks.

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.

Pingomatic, Pingoat – ping multiple blog tracking services. More

Plog – a project blog. Also for Amazon.com personalised weblogs

Plugins – Small files that add improved functionality and new features. WordPress plugins can greatly improve your blog usage and interactivity

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

Problogger – professional blogger

Progblog – A progressive blog.

R

Radio Userland – another blog publishing software package

RDF – short for Resource Description Framework. A web content syndication format.

Reciprocal Links – called link love. You link to my blog, I link to yours. To improve search engine rankings.

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.

S

Search engine friendly URLs or, for short, SEF URLs, implemented with a Rewrite engine.

SEO – search engine optimization. To improve your search engine rankings.

Shocklog – provokes discussion by posting shocking content

Sidebar – One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page

Sideblog – A smaller blog usually placed in the sidebar of a blog.

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.

Slashdotted – link posted on slashdot.org driving huge traffic to your blog.

SOB- acronym for Successful and Outstanding Blogger. From successful-blog.com

Spam blog – A blog which is composed of spam. A Spam blog or “any blog whose creator doesn’t add any written value.”

Sphere, Icerocket – blog search engines

Splog- a spam blog

Spomments- Spam comments

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

Tag cloud – Displaying tags lists or keywords in a blog.

Tags – labelling / attaching keywords to collect similar posts

Tech blog – focused on a technical subject.

Technorati – a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere

Template – the blog presentation design

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.

Typepad – paid blogging tool by SixApart

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.

WBloggar, Ecto, Qumanna – desktop blog publishing tools

Web Feed – allows online users to subscribe to websites that change or add content regularly.

Weblog- An online dated diary listing your periodic thoughts on a specific topic, often in reverse chronological order.

Wiki – a collaborative on-line software that allows readers to add and edit content.

WordPress.com – A WordPress blog hosted free for you.

WordPress.org - Free. Easy to Upload, customize and upgrade

X

XFN – short for XHTML Friends Network. Is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.

XML – short for eXtensible Markup Language. a general-purpose markup language for syndication formats used on blogs.

Y

YouTube, Rapidshare – puts video on your blog