A linklog is a type of
blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in Reverse ...
which is meant to act as a linked list. Common practice is for the post titles to link directly to an external
URLs, and the content of the post includes information to complement the associated URL.
Linklogs existed as a feature of computing systems before the internet as well. In distributed file systems a link log was a method of recording data in which a record is created and added to the proper log when updating a transaction. The format of a log record closely matches the specification of the transaction type it corresponds to. Link log records consisted of two parts in such a system: a set of type-independent fields, and a set of type-specific fields. The former set consists of pointers to the preceding and succeeding records of the log.
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In PBX systems such as AUDIX AUDIX (AUDio Information EXchange) is a voicemail server intended to be used with a Lucent/Avaya private branch exchange (PBX). AUDIX features many integrations with Avaya PBXes, such as capturing the extension of the calling party and announcing t ...
link-logs were a collection of data collecting to assist operators in maintaining the system.
Linklog software
Linkwalla
- A lightweight link blogging engine
* Delicious, a social bookmarking web service - Now Defunct
See also
* Microblogging
Microblogging is a form of social network that permits only short posts. They "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links",. Retrieved June 5, 2014 which may be the major reason for ...
External links
The Ruby and Rails community linklog
Tony Finch's linklog
References
Internet terminology
Blogs
Computer-mediated communication
Internet culture
Information systems
Web syndication
Web syndication formats
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