The following terms and definitions in our blogging glossary are for the beginner and intermediate blogger that need a reference point when they come across a word or phrase they don’t understand. If there are any edits or additions you would like to make to this glossary please add them in the comments bellow.
Adsense, Adbrite, CJ, Chitka, Blogads: popular affiliate programs to generate money from your blogs.
Ajax : acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. creates interactive web applications.
A-List: the top bloggers who influence the blogosphere.
Anonoblog: by an anonymous blogger
Archives: a collection of all your posts on one page. Can be categorized by month etc.
Atom : another specific web feed format. Blogger feeds are usually of this type.
Audioblogging : Also called audioblog, MP3 blog or musicblogs. a variant on the blogging using audio instead of text. Created by audioblogger.
Autocasting : is an automated form of podcasting
b5media, 9rules: examples of popular blogging networks. Collection of blogs and bloggers providing great content, with revenue sharing sometimes.
Blammer: Blog spammer
Blargon : Also called Blogssary. Blogging slang and glossary. What I am telling you now.
Blaudience : your blog audience.
Blawg: blogged by lawyer / related to legal stuff
Bleg : To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.
Blego : Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth
Blog: short form for weblog
Blog Carnival: Links to other articles covering a specific topic.
Blog Day: 31 August. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting and tell them. more
Blog hopping: jumping from one blog to another
Blog of Note: a recommended blog. more
Blog Tipping: Compliment 3 blogs on day 1 of every month. more
Blogathon : update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe collect sponsorships. more
Blogathy : I do not want to post today and I do not care about it
Blogburst : Syndicating your feed to top publishers.
Blogcasting : the blog and the podcast merged into a single website.
Blogebrity : a famous blogger.
Blogerati : the blogosphere intelligentsia.
Blogexplosion, Blogclicker: popular blog traffic generation / exchange services.
Blogger : a free blogging platform by Google.
Blogger : a person who blogs
Blogger bash : a blogger party
Blogger code: a way to describe different types of bloggers. more
Bloggerel: the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog
Bloggeropoly : professional blogger recruiting agency. more
Bloggies: Annual blogging awards. more
Blogging : the act of posting on blogs
Bloggoggle : Directory of Blogging Professionals
BlogHer : where the women bloggers are. At Blogher.org
Blogiday: you get fed up and take a holiday from blogging
Blogiversary : your blog birthday
Blogiversary : your blog birthday
Blogiverse: see blogosphere
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
Blognoscenti : especially knowledgable bloggers
Blogoholic : addicted to blogging
Blogonomics : blogging conference on a Blog Cruise in 2006. more
Blogophobia: Fear of blogs and blogging.
Blogopotamus : A long long blog post
Blogorific = blogtastic: something which a blogger says is terrific
Blogorrhea : unusually high output of articles
Blogosphere : The internet blogging community
Blogroach : A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content
Blogroll : list of links to other blogs in your sidebar. Also see blogrolling.com
Blogsit : maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave
Blogsite : A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources
Blogsnob: refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.
Blogspot : free Blogger hosting blog at name.blogspot.com
Blogstar: blogger running a popular blog
Blogstipation : writer’s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog about?
Blogstorm: a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.
Blogther : a fellow blogger.
BlogThis : a function allows a blogger to blog the entry they a reading
Blogvertising : Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.
Blook : a book created from a blog. more
Blurker : a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.
Boing Boinged: link posted on boingboing.net driving huge traffic to your blog
BSM : Blogstream media. from most heavily trafficked blogs.
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. Helful to block automated spam comments. more
Categories : A collection of topic specific posts
Celeblog: focused on a celebrity.
Celebriblog: maintained by a celebrity.
CEOBlog: run by a chief executive officer.
Clog Blog: written in Dutch and/or in Holland.
CMS: short for Content management system. software used to publish and manage websites.
CoComment : Tracks your comments across different platforms and follow conversations
Commentariat : The community of those leaving comments.
Commenter : someone who leaves remarks / comments
Comments : enabling readers to leave their remarks
Creative Commons: licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
Dark Blog: A non-public blog
Dashboard : When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.
Del.icio.us, furl, spurl: share social bookmarks.
Digged : link posted on digg.com driving huge traffic to your blog
Dooced : lost a job because of blog entries. To Dooce.
Doppelblogger: plagiarize the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.
Edu-blog: education oriented blog.
EFF : short for Electronic Frontier Foundation. A nonprofit group working to protect blogger rights.
Event blog: focussed on an event
Expandable post summaries: show a small teaser part of the post on the index page that link to the full post. more
Farked: link posted on fark.com driving huge traffic to your blog
Feedblitz, Zokooda: Email subscriptions and newletter tools.
Feedburner : a professional feed management system
Flickr, Imageshack : photo sharing service. Host images on your blog
Footer : the most bottom part of the blog usually listing navigation and copyright statements
FTP : short for file transfer protocol. Transferring file to and fro from your web host using FTP tools like Filezilla
GAD : Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your adsense earnings. more
Greasemonkey : a firefox web browser extension that can alter the functionality of any website using specific scripts.
Group blog: with multiple contributing bloggers.
Haloscan: free trackback service
Hat Tip: acknowledgement of the source that tipped you the news.
Header : the topmost part of the blog usually listing the blog title.
Hitnosis : Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased
Index page: the front page fo the blog
Instalanche : link posted on instapundit.com driving huge traffic to your blog
Jump: the continuation of a the story on another page to preserve space on index page.
K2, Blix: names of some popular wordpress themes.
Kittyblogger: writing about cats.
Klog : used by company knowledge workers. by Kloggers
Linguablog : about linguistics, translation etc.
Linkbaiting : a habit of writing good content with the sole purpose of getting it linked from multiple sites.
Live Bookmarks: a firefox web browser feature. Update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.
LiveJournal : free blogging tool by SixApart
Metablog: a blog about blogging.
Metablogging : writing articles about blogging
Milblog : a military blog.
Mint, Mybloglog, Measuremap, Analytics: site traffic tracking tools.
Moblogging : Also called moblogs. A blog posted and maintained via mobile phone. Moblogs are created by mobloggers.
Movable Type: paid blogging tool by SixApart
Movlogs : mobile video blogs.
MSM : Mainstream Media, or old media like newspapers etc.
Multiblog : running multiple blogs
Navbar : a navigation bar usually seen on top of Blogger blogspot hosted blogs. more
Odeo, Podnova: are Podcatchers, a form of aggregator used to automatically download podcasts and can sometimes transfer a portable media player.
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.
Page Rank: Google measures of importance of a page which reflects in its rankings.
Pageflakes, Newsvine: Track multiple feeds on a single page by modules.
Permalink : A link to a specific article
Photoblogging : a blog predominantly using and focusing on photographs and images. Photoblogs are created by photobloggers
Photocast: a photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.
Photofeed: a web feed with image enclosures.
Ping: Short for Packet Internet Grouper. Blog and ping helps to notify other blog tracking tools for updates, changes and trackbacks.
Pingback : See trackback.
Pingomatic, Pingoat: ping multiple blog tracking services. More
Plog : a project blog. Also for Amazon.com personalised weblogs
Plugins : Small files that add improved functionality and new features. WordPress plugins can greatly improve your blog usage and interactivity
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.
Post, Entry: individual articles that make up a blog
Problogger : professional blogger
Progblog : A progressive blog.
Radio Userland: another blog publishing software package
RDF : short for Resource Description Framework. A web content syndication format.
Reciprocal Links : called link love. You link to my blog, I link to yours. To improve search engine rankings.
RSS : a family of web feed formats used for Web syndication. Short form for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary , RDF Site Summary.
SEO : search engine optimization. To improve your search engine rankings.
Shocklog : provokes discussion by posting shocking content
Sidebar : One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page
Sideblog : A smaller blog usually placed in the sidebar of a blog.
Slashdotted : link posted on slashdot.org driving huge traffic to your blog. more
SOB: acronym for Successful and Outstanding Blogger. From successful-blog.com
Sphere, Icerocket: blog search engines
Splog: a spam blog
Spomments: Spam commentsTag cloud: Displaying tags lists or keywords in a blog.
Tags : labelling / attaching keywords to collect similar posts
Tech blog: focused on a technical subject.
Technorati: a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere
Template : the blog presentation design
Trackback : A system by which a ping is sent to another blog to notify that their article has been mentioned by you
Typepad : paid blogging tool by SixApart
Vlogging : Also called video blogging. Shortened to vlog. Posted by vlogger. A variant on the blogging using video instead of text.
WBloggar, Ecto, Qumanna: desktop blog publishing tools
Web Feed: allows online users to subscribe to websites that change or add content regularly.
Weblog: An online dated diary listing your periodic thoughts on a specific topic, often in reverse chronological order.
Wiki : a collaborative on-line software that allows readers to add and edit content.
WordPress.com: A WordPress blog hosted free for you.
WordPress.org: Free. Easy to Upload, customize and upgrade.
XFN: short for XHTML Friends Network. Is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
XML : short for eXtensible Markup Language. a general-purpose markup language for syndication formats used on blogs.
YouTube, Rapidshare: puts video on your blog
