QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO BLOGGING TERMS AND SOURCES

2009-07-19T17:04:00.000-07:00

This may not be a full reference guide as it has been compiled from many sources

Blogging Terms and references Glossary:
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Internet Acronyms & Lingo

unusual blog abbreviations and blogging acronym's

Blog language : This has not totally been created by me, but amassed and collected over time.

Bloggability – Measurement of any given event or occurrence and its likely hood of appearing in Blog form

Bloggademic – Heinously flowery, difficult to grasp, niche market ramblings from Bloggers with big brains and too much time on their hands

Bloggality – A recognisable form and content across a number of entries, ” I like his bloggality, don’t you?”

Blogganoia – That unnerving feeling that someone somewhere is Blogging about you

Bloggasm – Tense, exciting Blog that reaches a crescendo then fades away messily and turns it’s back on you.

Bloggazoids – Bloggers of great intellectual capacity but little empathy leading to cases of Bloglag

Blogbubo – Any section of Blog that is cut and paste into any other virtual space by an unknown or known other....

Blogcamp – Any given Blog entry that has more than its fair share of ! or contains oooooohhhh or ahhhhhhh with far too many a’s or o’s.

Blogcentric – Any entry that Blogs about a previous Blog

Blogciousness – Knowing you haven’t Blogged for a while and berating yourself for it, “To be in a state of Blogciousness”

Blogdeath – The termination of any given Blog for whatever reason

Blogderful – Warm glow from a particular good Blogging experience

Blogular – Interminable ongoing Blog

Blogdrag that always holds out promise for tomorrows entry but never quite delivers

Bloggease – Ability to use these words with others who understand them

Bloggecules – Individual snippets of Blog that inhabit cyberspace and have never been read by anyone anywhere.

Blogeen – Ramblings of adolescents, often pathetic, usually Blogideous and with no Blogality. Blogger does not understand Blogability and is far from a Blogademic.

Blogsturbation is a given with multiple Blogasms as a result

Blogideous – Garish backgrounds, unwanted sounds and other clutter make a Blog unreadable. “This Blog is blogideous”

Blogily – Incestuous back patting by a group of four or less Bloggers who’s Blogs are all crap and who also have no friends.

Blogiotics – The art of interpreting Blog entries with your own hidden agenda be it conscious or unconscious.

Blogish – Any sentence with three or more of the words on this list as part of its structure either spoken or written.

Blogites – Any given group of Bloggers in a real location who are aware that they all Blog but don’t particularly like each other.

Blogittus – The condition that causes you to pester other people to Blog .

Bloglag – The gradual loss of readers through too many stupid posts

Blogonites written by strange and unusual methods

Blogazoids who should have kept it simple easy to understand .

BlogsyBloglins – Any given group of Bloggers in a real location who are aware that they all Blog and who get on famously

Blogme – to limit the number of words you can use in any given Blog, the layout is specifically restrained and colour choices limited, akin to the Dog me manifest of film making this activity is supposed to promote creativity and imagination.

Bloggnog – Bloggers with a huge ego and no sense of perspective who don’t even get the hint when no one reads they're post's

Bloggnoxious – any activity by an individual/organisation/the state designed to curtail
Blogging

Bloggodile – A nasty comment (that has real teeth in a slanderous or liable way) directed at anyone. May cause Blognoxiousness to occur.

Blognoxiousness severely caustic attitude defined in comments or references to.

Blogoff – Their general response to your incessant mutterings that they should Blog

Blogoidance – to not read a Blog with the deliberate intent of offending someone who expects you to do so.

Bloggoids – Any given group of Bloggers in a real location who are unaware that they all Blog or actual hemeroids obtained from frequent blogging.

Blogonite – a particular tough Blog entry that no matter how much you try you cant understand a bloody word (See Blogademic)

Bloggority – A Sorority of Bloggers

Bloggpiracy – To pass an others Blog entry off as your own

Blogportant – A vital and very important Blog

Bloggereatric – Bloggers of pensionable age

Blogsection – The small amount of scrolling that everyone must do to read the last few lines of an entry.

Blogsplit – An argument between two or more Bloggers

Blogsprog – A website born from a Blog that has a small but cultish following

Blogster – A reader who reads many Blogs, never comments and has no Blogs himself

Blogstump – an unfinished entry that only last minutes as being unfinished, because the Blogger was distracted. In this fleeting time at least one other has viewed the entry and entirely misinterpreted the meaning. (See Bloggiotics)

Blogstumps are rare but effective stupidifications

Blogsturbation – Far too much activity with blogging actions

Blogcentric Absolutely eccentric behaviour
Blogaviod Short entry that is designed to avoid noticing the enevitable loss of writing skills

Blogswift one that may give the false impression of attaining Blogular status

Blogular a constant and regular blog constantly updated

Bloggswot – To over analyse any given entry

Blogsy – Simply written, easily understand much appreciated brain fart candy from any given Blogger

Blogtroversial – Any passion inflaming Blog that upsets at least three people or more. with multiple comment backed returns

Blogular -7 days continuous Blogging with a common thread is said to be Bloggular.

Bloggularity – Knowing the address of any given Blog off by heart

Bloggulation – To cut off a Bloggers oxygen by not responding to any post or comment he makes is to carry out the act of Bloggulation.

Blogasylum Also know as being sent to the writers insane asylum

Bloggvestite – A mans Blog that's too pretty or written as a womans or visaversa Blog that is too butch

Blogvoid – any single Blog period of 24 hrs with no entry at all

Blogxtra – A piece of Blog so good it requires extra e-mails to be sent to remind all those friends who promised to keep up with your Blog to please do so......

Blogplop – Any word in any Blog that is misspelled but makes another word which cause the whole Blog to be laughable, these often become Bloggbubos

Blogsecution – Anonymous and nasty comments from a Blogtwit ment as an executionable offence or offensive in more ways than one

Blogtwit – Stupid individuals who judge Bloggers purely on what they say and never get to know them before launching a text assault, most usually anonymous

Blogwobbler – Tirade written when drunk or pissed that is later regretted and deleted by the Blogger who is praying it hasn’t become a Bloggbubo

blammer = blog spammer

doppleblogger = a content scraping blogger (goes with doppleblog) All materials compiled as here were content scraped from many variable places and compiled for a quick reference . rather than many variable page references :)

Flog- A portmanteau of “fake” and “blog”. A blog that’s ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.

spomments = spam comments

Open source quick reference of true meaning of a blog : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

OTHER BLOGGING dialog

Weblog- An online dated diary listing your periodic thoughts on a specific topic, often in reverse chronological order.

Blog – short form for web log

Blogging - the act of posting on blogs

Blogger - a person who blogs

Blogosphere - The internet blogging community

BLOGGING FORMS

Photo blogging - a blog predominantly using and focusing on photographs and images. Photoblogs are created by photobloggers

Podcasting - a method of distributing multimedia files (audio / videos) online using feeds for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcasts are created by podcasters.

Autocasting - is an automated form of podcasting

Blogcasting - the blog and the podcast merged into a single website.

Vlogging - Also called video blogging. Shortened to vlog. Posted by vlogger. A variant on the blogging using video instead of text.

Audioblogging - Also called audioblog, MP3 blog or musicblogs. a variant on the blogging using audio instead of text. Created by audioblogger.

Moblogging - Also called moblogs. A blog posted and maintained via mobile phone. Moblogs are created by mobloggers.

BLOG COMPONENTS AND FUNCTIONS

Index page – the front page for the blog

Header - the topmost part of the blog usually listing the blog title.

Footer - the most bottom part of the blog usually listing navigation and copyright statements

Sidebar - One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page

Categories - A collection of topic specific posts

Post, Entry- individual articles that make up a blog

Comments - enabling readers to leave their remarks

Captcha - short for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans
Apart”. Those word and letter verification images you need to type in to show you are human and not a bot. Helpful to block automated spam comments.

Ping – Short for Packet Internet Grouper. Blog and ping helps to notify other blog tracking tools for updates, changes and trackbacks.

Trackback - A system by which a ping is sent to another blog to notify that their article has been mentioned by you

Pingback - See trackback.

Permalink - A link to a specific article

Tags - labelling / attaching keywords to collect similar posts

Tag cloud – Displaying tags lists or keywords in a blog.

Blogroll - list of links to other blogs in your sidebar. Also see blogrolling.com

Sideblog - A smaller blog usually placed in the sidebar of a blog.

Template - the blog presentation design

BlogThis - a function allows a blogger to blog the entry they a reading

Plugins - Small files that add improved functionality and new features. Wordpress plugins can greatly improve your blog usage and interactivity

Dashboard - When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.

Archives – a collection of all your posts on one page. Can be categorized by month etc.

Expandable post summaries – show a small teaser part of the post on the index page that link to the full post.

Jump – the continuation of a the story on another page to preserve space on index page.

FTP - short for file transfer protocol. Transferring file to and fro from your web host using FTP tools like Filezilla

WEB FEEDS

Web Feed – allows online users to subscribe to websites that change or add content regularly.

RSS - a family of web feed formats used for Web syndication. Short form for Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0), Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0), RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0). Wordpress generates RSS 2.0

XML - short for eXtensible Markup Language. a general-purpose markup language for syndication formats used on blogs.

RDF - short for Resource Description Framework. A web content syndication format.
Atom - another specific web feed format. Blogger feeds are usually of this type.

OPML – short for Outline Processor Markup Language. It is an XML format for outlines. Easily import and export multiple blog subscriptions between different rss aggregators.

Photofeed- a web feed with image enclosures.

BLOGGING SOFTWARE / CLIENTS

Blogger - a free blogging platform by Google.

Blogspot - free Blogger hosting blog at name.blogspot.com

LiveJournal - free blogging tool by SixApart

Movable Type – paid blogging tool by SixApart

Typepad - paid blogging tool by SixApart

Wordpress.org- Free. Easy to Upload, customize and upgrade.

Wordpress.com – A Wordpress blog hosted free for you.

Radio Userland – another blog publishing software package

TYPES OF BLOGS

Group blog- with multiple contributing bloggers.

Event blog – focused on an event

Kittyblogger – writing about cats.

Celeblog – focused on a celebrity.

Celebriblog – maintained by a celebrity.

Clog Blog – written in Dutch and/or in Holland.

CEOBlog – run by a chief executive officer.

Plog - a project blog. Also for Amazon.com personalized weblogs

Movlogs - mobile video blogs.

Splog- a spam blog

Tech blog – focused on a technical subject.

Anonoblog – by an anonymous blogger

Linguablog - about linguistics, translation etc.

Metablog – a blog about blogging.

Milblog - a military blog.

Blawg – blogged by lawyer / related to legal stuff

Edu-blog – education oriented blog.

Progblog - A progressive blog.

Shocklog - provokes discussion by posting shocking content

Klog - used by company knowledge workers. by Kloggers

Blogsite - A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources

Dark Blog- A non-public blog

Photocast- a photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.

BLOGGING HABITS

Acronymns - tyfyc, “Thank You For Your Comment

Metablogging - writing articles about blogging

Blogstipation - writer’s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog about?

Blogathy - I do not want to post today and I do not care about it

spomments = spam comments

doppleblogger = a content scraping blogger (goes with doppleblog

Blammer = blog spammer

Blogopotamus - A long long blog post

Blogorrhea - unusually high output of articles

Bleg - To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.

Hitnosis - Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased

GAD - Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your adsense earnings.

Blego - Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth

Blog hopping – jumping from one blog to another

Blogroach - A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content

Blogoholic - addicted to blogging Blogoholic – addicted to blogging means being addicted to reading blogs or writing blogs

Blogorific = blogtastic – something which a blogger says is terrific

Blogsit - maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave

Blogvertising - Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.

Blurker - a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.

Blogathon - update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe to collect
sponsorships.

Blogiversary - your blog birthday

Blog Carnival – Links to other articles covering a specific topic.

Multiblog - running multiple blogs

Blog Tipping – Complimenting blogs every day or every month.

Blogger bash - a blogger party

Commenter - someone who leaves remarks / comments

Reciprocal Links - called link love. You link to my blog, I link to yours. To improve search engine rankings.

Linkbaiting - a habit of writing good content with the sole purpose of getting it linked from multiple sites.

Blogstorm – a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.

Blogsnob – refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.

Doppelblogger – plagiarize the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.

Blogophobia – Fear of blogs and blogging.

Bloggerel – the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog

BLOGGER TYPES

Problogger - professional blogger

Blognoscenti - especially knowledgable bloggers

Blogebrity - a famous blogger.

Blogerati - the blogosphere intelligentsia.

Commentariat - The community of those leaving comments.

Dooced - lost a job because of blog entries. To Dooce.

Blogther - a fellow blogger.

A-List- the top bloggers who influence the blogosphere.

Blogstar- blogger running a popular blog

OTHER BLOGGING TERMS

Bloggies- Annual blogging awards.

MSM - Mainstream Media, or old media like newspapers etc.

BSM - Blogstream media. from mo
st heavily trafficked blogs.

Blog Day – 31 August. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting and tell them. more

Blaudience - your blog audience.

Blargon - Also called Blogssary. Blogging slang and glossary. What I am telling you now.

Blogiversary - your blog birthday

Blogiverse – see blogosphere

XFN – short for XHTML Friends Network. Is a simple way to represent human relationships
using hyperlinks.

Blogonomics - blogging conference on a Blog

EFF - short for Electronic Frontier Foundation. A nonprofit group working to protect blogger rights.

Blog of Note – a recommended blog.

Navbar - a navigation bar usually seen on top of Blogger blogspot hosted blogs.

Blook - a book created from a blog.

Hat Tip- acknowledgement of the source that tipped you the news.

Spomments- Spam comments

Blammer- Blog spammer

SOB- acronym for Successful and Outstanding Blogger. From successful-blog.com

Blogiday- you get fed up and take a holiday from blogging

BLOGGING TOOLS & SERVICES

Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, Kinja, – are News Aggregators that display content from syndicated Web content from web feed. Can be configured online or downloaded on your desktop. Like . Also called RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators or news readers

Pageflakes, Newsvine – Track multiple feeds on a single page by modules.

Odeo, Podnova – are Podcatchers, a form of aggregator used to automatically download pod casts and can sometimes transfer a portable media player. Like

Feedburner - a professional feed management system

Pingomatic, Pingoat – ping multiple blog tracking services.

Feedblitz, Zokooda – Email subscriptions and newletter tools.

Technorati – a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere

b5media, 9rules – examples of popular blogging networks. Collection of blogs and bloggers providing great content, with revenue sharing sometimes.

K2, Blix – names of some popular wordpress themes.

Blogexplosion, Blogclicker- popular blog traffic generation / exchange services.

Adsense, Adbrite, CJ, Chitka, Blogads – popular affiliate programs to generate money from your blogs.

Sphere, Icerocket – blog search engines

Live Bookmarks – a firefox web browser feature. Update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.

Creative Commons – licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.

CoComment - Tracks your comments across different platforms and follow conversations

WBloggar, Ecto, Qumanna – desktop blog publishing tools

Mint, Mybloglog, Measuremap, Analytics – site traffic tracking tools.

Haloscan- free trackback service

YouTube, Rapidshare- puts video on your blog

Flickr, Imageshack - photo sharing service. Host images on your blog

Del.icio.us, furl, spurl – share social bookmarks.

Blogburst - Syndicating your feed to top publishers.

Bloggeropoly - professional blogger recruiting agency.

Blogger code – a way to describe different types of bloggers.

Bloggoggle - Directory of Blogging Professionals

BlogHer - where the women bloggers are. At Blogher.org

BLOG TRAFFIC SURGES

Digged - link posted on digg.com driving huge traffic to your blog

Slashdotted - link posted on slashdot.org driving huge traffic to your blog. more

Instalanche - link posted on instapundit.com driving huge traffic to your blog

Farked – link posted on fark.com driving huge traffic to your blog

Boing Boinged – link posted on boingboing.net driving huge traffic to your blog

MISCELLANEOUS BLOGGING TERMS

Ajax - acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. creates interactive web applications.

Greasemonkey - a firefox web browser extension that can alter the functionality of any website using specific scripts.

Wiki - a collaborative on-line software that allows readers to add and edit content.

SEO - search engine optimization. To improve your search engine rankings.

Page Rank – Google measures of importance of a page which reflects in its rankings.

CMS – short for Content management system. software used to publish and manage websites.

Here's another quick reference guide but it is in alphabetical order with many page jumps: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1186975,00.html

This compilation of examples has been found and brought together from many variable sourses and reader comments...............

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