Blogging - Part 2 : Getting Technical

Lets take a look at some of the common terms used by bloggers

Blog client
This is a software to manage (post, edit) blogs from operating system with no need to launch a web browser. A typical blog client has an editor, a spell-checker and a few more options that simplify content creation and editing.

Blog Farm
A website constructed from a group of linked weblogs.

Blog feed
The XML-based file in which the blog hosting software places a machine-readable version of the blog so that it may be “syndicated” for further distribution on the web.

Blog hopping

To follow links from one blog entry to another, with related side-trips to various articles, sites, discussion forums, and more.

Blogroll
A list of blogs.

Blogsite
Not to be confused with a simple blog or blog site. A blogsite is a web site which combines blog feeds from a variety of sources.

Ping
A TrackBack system that notifies the original poster of a blog post when someone else writes an entry concerning the original post.

RSS aggregator
Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on his favourite blogs.

RSS feed
The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated.

Slashdotted
The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or other website, and is caused by a major website sending huge amounts of traffic.

TrackBack
A system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it.

Permalink
A permalink is a URL that points to a specific blogging entry even after the entry has passed from the front page into the blog archives. Permalink is a term made from permanent link and is often simply stated so as to be human-readable.

Deep linking
Deep linking, on the World Wide Web, is the act of placing on a Web page a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image within another website, as opposed to that website’s main or home page. Such links are called deep links.
Critics say that the term ‘deep linking’ is unnecessary: deep linking is nothing other than hyperlinking.

Link Rot
Link rot is the process by which links on a website gradually become irrelevant or broken as time goes on, because websites that they link to disappear, change their content or redirect to new locations.

Courtesy : Wikipedia

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2 Responses
  1. Alex says:

    Show me the money!!!

    How can i make money wit my blog???

  2. Ramya says:

    How can i get block quotes to be displayed in highlighted text?. Can you post some real-world samples?

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