Blog Terms Part2
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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.
