Blogging: Blog Lingo
If you want to be "cool", "hot", or "whatever", then you need to know the lingo. We've used online sources such as Samizdata's Blog Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia, and Blog Glossaries for these references.
- Barking moonbat - someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be.
- Bleg - to use one's blog to beg for assistance such as money. It's known humorously as blegging.
- Bloiversary - the birthday of the establishment of a blog.
- Blogger ecosystem - a chart or list showing the links between blogs.
- Blogroach - someone who infests the comments section of a blog with obnoxious postings. Similar to trolls who disrupt discussions by tricking others into reacting.
- Blogroll - a collection of links on the sidebar of a blog linking to other blogs.
- Blogosphere - the totality of the blogging community. Also known as Blogistan or the blogiverse.
- Blogstorm - when a large amount of information, commentary, or activity erupts in the blogosphere.
- Blurker - a person who reads many blogs but leaves no evidence of themselves behind; a silent observer.
- Crud - when a blogger makes an error in programming that results in visible code appearing on the screen.
- Comment Spam - an unsolicited commercial message automatically posted in a blog's comments area.
- Dead-tree Media - anything made of paper such as newspapers and magazines.
- Dooced (pronounced like deuce) - losing your job for something you wrote in an online blog.
- Drive-by Blogging - the sudden rush of blog entries that fill in the gaps and fulfill the requirements of the weblog portfolio assignment.
- Edublog - an education oriented blog.
- Event blog - a blog set up for a particular event.
- Feed Reader - news aggregators that are extensions to web browsers such as Firefox are used to read RSS feeds from blogs and other sources.
- Flame - to make a hostile remark; usually of a personal nature.
- Klogs - also known as knowledge logs are internal blogs often housed on intranets.
- Link rot - when a list of website links contains many dead links; the best solution is to design your website with a permalink system
- People to Know
- Jorn Barger - Credited with coining the term weblog in 1997
- Peter Merholz - Credited with coining the term blog in 1999
- Dave Winer - Created one of the first weblogs
- Permalink - a web link that takes you to the permanent location of an article in a blog archive.
- Podcasting - using your MP3 player to listen to the audio from a blog.
- Plog - a project log used to chronicle a project.
- RDF (Resource Description Framework) - a web content syndication format.
- RSS (Rich Site Summary) or (Really Simply Syndication) - a web content syndication format; a feed reader is used to check RSS enabled webpages on behalf of a user and display any updated information. Learn more
- Thread - a side discussion taking place within the comments section of a blog. The term is taken for the forum discussion environment.
- Vogging - video blogging
- Xenoblogging - the work you do that helps other people's blogs