Blogging Jargons

What is a Blog? A blog is an abbreviation of the term “Web Log”. It is like keeping a journal of what you do, your hobby and your interests. Blogosphere

All blogs or the blogging community a.k.a. “blogging world”. Comment Spam

They are like email spam. Robot “spam bots” 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.

Moblog

Contraction of “mobile blog”. A blog that can be updated remotely from anywhere, such as by phone or personal digital assistant (PDA).

Content Syndication

How a site’s author or administrator makes all or part of its content available for posting on another website.

Photoblog

A blog mostly containing photos, posted constantly and chronologically.

Podcasting

Contraction of “iPod” and “broadcasting”. Posting audio and video material on a blog and its RSS Feed, for digital players.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

A way of handling the latest items posted on a website, especially suited for blogs because it alerts users whenever their favorite blogs are updated. It can also “syndicate” content by allowing other websites (simply and automatically) to reproduce all or part of a site’s content. Spreading fast, especially on media websites.

RSS Aggregator

Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on his favorite blogs. Also called a reader, or feed reader.

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.

Wiki

From the Hawaiian word “wikiwiki” (quick). A website that can be easily and quickly updated by any visitor. The word has also come to mean the tools used to create a wiki (wiki engines). Blogs and wikis have some similarities but are quite different.

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