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Refer to this short list of blogging terms. Blogging has grown steadily for the last 5 years and by that it has grown its own terms and vocabulary for bloggers to understand each other. And to separate themselves from the rest of the users.

• Collaborative blog is a blog usually concentrated on a single issue or political stripe. It is also known as a group blog.
• Comment spam is like the E-mail spam. Spambots or robots, bombard a certain blog site with advertising in the form of fake comments. This has been a very serious dilemma for bloggers so they came up with special tools to differentiate bots from humans. One way is through captchas.
• Desktop Blogging Client is simply an offline blog management tool
• Fisking is to rebut a blog entry line-by-line.
• Flog is a blend of two words, fake and blog. A blog that is written by someone for the sole purpose of a marketing strategy.
• Feeds are RSS Feeds
• Milblog is term coined for blogs written by members any military organization. Like the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
• Moblog a combination of mobile and blog pertaining to posts sent by mobile phones using SMS or MMS messages. Photoblogs is an example.
• Permalink is the unique URL of a single post. You can use this if you like to link to a post somewhere.
• Photoblog is a blog containing photos and posted chronologically.
• Pingback is the alert in the TrackBack system.

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One way to market your brand is through poster printing. It can be an informative yet attractive way to tell the people about a newly released product, or just plainly advertise an event.
Graphic artists or layout artists can easily create templates in quite a short span of time. Or there are ready made designs, available through the internet. Here are some ways to create a poster that speaks loudly but so simply designed.

Choose images that are eye-catching.
Write a headline that will make people stop, look and think. They should want to know more. And write contents that will make the reader want to go further rather than a detailed explanation of evrything that you are selling.
Choose colors wisely. Pick colors that would represent your company or your brand.
Place your website and your email address at the end of the poster or at the bottom.

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News: Controversial Vigilante Screensaver Shut Down; Trojan Warning.
Just days after they released their controversial anti-spam screensaver, Lycos Europe has shut down the campaign. The new program, “Make Love Not Spam”, was designed to actively handcuff spam servers by choking their bandwidth connection. Now, Lycos Europe has shut the campaign down for reasons still unclear.

To further compound this juicy controversy, a new Trojan horse virus has popped up, masquerading as the Make Love Not Spam screensaver. Be warned: this Trojan is NOT the MLNS program!

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To Digg or not to Digg? That’s a good question. Digg is a popular online social bookmarking site where you can digg or bury–rate an online article, video or podcast thumbs up or thumbs down. Submit what you like for other members to find. The more diggs it receives, the more popular it gets and the higher it comes up on top of the page heap. This is one place where your reactions are valued. Digg lets you visualize the content and participate in a number of ways. That’s the social part of it, aside from letting you find out what your friends are digging. Members can also customize their view to remove categories they are not interested in. But even if you don’t sign in, you can find out what diggers are discovering.

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Are feeds and RSS one and the same? It’s easier to think so, but if you want to be a little more technical, the simple way to explain is that a feed could be in the RSS format. In its latest incarnation, RSS 2.0, the acronym stands for Really Simple Syndication, which is what it is. RSS allows aggregation in the XML (Extensible Markup Language) data format for content that gets updated like websites, blogs and podcasts. The RSS document or feed is checked automatically by the feed reader for new content. The orange RSS icon is now standard in many sites.

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A term like feed aggregator sounds very intimidating, but in reality, it’s anything but scary. Also called feed reader or news reader, it is a software or web-based application that enables you to read syndicated feeds. In short, you can subscribe to anything with feeds: blogs, websites, podcasts, even video channels. There are many free aggregators out there that take the fuss out of visiting your favorites sites. You’ll find that you’ll save time and become more updated with the use of an aggregator. Start with the NewsGator suite of readers, including FeedDemon for Windows, NewsGator Inbox for MS Outlook, NewsGator Online, and NetNewsWire 3.1 for Mac OS X.

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What are feeds and why enable them? Feeds get your blog content to more people by “pushing” them on a regular basis or whenever there are updates through the means convenient to them. Readers choose to subscribe to the sites they want updates of and have the flexibility to read new posts at their own pace without having to go to the blog or website itself. How do you know there are feeds? Look for the orange icon.  Some blogging platforms automatically have feeds enabled. For others, you need to turn them on, so check with your provider. Also, take a look at FeedBurner and FeedBlitz to help you optimize, publicize and make the most of your feeds.

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How would blogging benefit jobseekers? Showing up on searches of your name is a tricky process of links and popularity, but done correctly, a high-ranking blog could show potential employers a more complete and impressive picture of you than any CV can. With a well designed blog, you could put your best foot forward online.

Both stay-at-home moms and mothers working full-time will be able to make full use of blogs because there are many moms blogging about domestic and parenting issues online. Blogs are great venues for meeting moms, exchanging tips and giving advice on various topics. Whether your kids are infants or all grown up, you’ll still be able to pick up some hints from supportive moms. And it won’t cost you much time–a few posts a month will only take a few minutes to write, unless you want to put in much more work into them.

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Blogging is largely associated with non-professionals. Should teachers and academics blog, then? It depends on your aim. A number of classes have included blogging as part of their coursework to encourage students to collaborate at to open up their work to feedback. Some universities allow their faculty and staff to blog using their university websites. Other students and researchers have project blogs to update others about their progress. Because of publishing online is instant, new work comes out more quickly than books and journals, which can take months and years to come out, by which time the findings could be obsolete. Overall, blogging opens up knowledge and learning beyond the classroom setting, and provides a fresh alternative to traditional publishing.

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When you decide to blog, don’t just do it because you want to hitch your cart on the bandwagon. If anything, blog because you want to. Blog because you feel the need to express and share your thoughts, emotions and ideas. Blog because you want to contribute something to the new media that is the internet. Blog because you want to be of service to others.

There are bloggers who are over conscious with what is in and what is cool in the world of blogging. Others are more concerned with writing about topics that are sure traffic getters. But if you are comfortable in your own niche and you believe you have a sure and loyal audience to your blog, then there is no reason why you should write about American Idol because it’s in season. Or deviate unnecessarily from your theme by blogging about Britney Spears just because she is No. 1 in Google search.

Blogging should not be seen as fad. Otherwise, it will defeat the very purpose of communication for which it came to be.

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