Basic or Common Blog Terms
1. Blog – To enter a post or To maintain text, links, images or other content, often using blogging software. Other meaning you can refer to “Blog Definition”
2. Blogger – A writer of blog or a person who writes and post a blog.
3. Blogging – Blog action or the behavior to blog
4. Blogroll - A list of blogs that usually visit by the bloggers
5. Blogspot - Hosting service for Blogger.com which owned by Google
6. Comment – The feedback or response posted to the end of post by visitors.
7. Del.icio.us - The social bookmarking site where users can collectively tag favorite links.
8. Opt in - join the mailing list to require companies engaged in telemarketing to update their lists regularly in the light of subscribers’ notifications.
9. Opt out – request to remove from subscription list
10. Permalink - The unique URL of a single post on a blog, used when anyone wants to link specifically to a post rather than to the most recently updated page of a blog.
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12. Post - An entry written and published to a blog.
13. RSS - Really Simple Syndication. A method of describing news or other Web content that is available for “feeding” (distribution or syndication) from an online publisher to Web users.
14. RSS Feed - The file that contains the latest updates to an RSS-equipped page.
15. Reciprocal Link - When one blogger exchanges links on its blogroll with another blogger’s blogroll.
16. Site Admin – Log-in to Blog website administration
17. Sidebar - One or more columns generally found on the side of most blogs, usually containing a profile of the blogger, blogroll, advertising, Flickr feeds or other plug-ins.
18. Tag - A generic term for a language element descriptor, often used in blogs to identify the type or types of content that makes up a particular post.
19. Thread - A series of posts on a specific topic.
20. Trackback - A protocol that allows a blogger to link to post, often on other blogs, that relate to a selected subject.
For more blog glossary, you can refer to:
i) whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1186975,00.html#a
ii) euro.cauce.org/en/optinvsoptout.html
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