Creating a Blog

Blog Terms

Mini-Glossary

Blog Blogger“A specific type of website where the author publishes his thoughts, ideas or knowledge about different topics. Usually the content is published in small articles, called posts, and in chronological order. Blogs emerged as online diaries, but today they cover all niches, and compete head to head with mainstream media” (Scocco ,n.d., p.1).

“Anyone who owns or authors a blog” (Scocco, n.d., p.1).

Blogging“The act of writing something on a blog. It can also mean the broader range of activities that bloggers perform (e.g., interacting with visitors, researching content and so on)” (Scocco, n.d., p.1).

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LinkPost

“An entry written and published to a blog” (Wikipedia,2010 p.3).

“Using hypertext, a link is a selectable connection from one word, picture, or information object to another” (TechTarget, 2008,p.7).

Glossary of Blogging – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blogging_terms#R

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RSS

RSS Feed“Acronym for Really Simple Syndication. It is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly” (Scocco, n.d., p.8)

“An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website” (Scocco , n.d., p.6).

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Thread

Weblog “The unshortened

version of 'blog'” (TechTarget, 2008, p.11)

“A series of posts on a specific topic” (TechTarget, 2008, p.10)

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Website: Blog Terms

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2010). Glossary of Blogging.

Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blogging_terms#R

TechTarget (2008). Blog terms: Glossary. Website: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1186975,00.html

Scocco, D. (n.d.). The bloggers glossary.Website: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/the-bloggers-glossary/