This is a list of blogging terms.

Blog A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...

ging, like any hobby, has developed something of a specialized

vocabulary A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual. The word ''vocabulary'' originated from the Latin , meaning "a word, name". It forms an essential component of languag ...

. The following is an attempt to explain a few of the more common phrases and words, including

etymologies Etymology ( ) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. In the 21st century a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. ...

when not obvious.

Blog-related terms

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Atom Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements. An atom consists of a atomic nucleus, nucleus of protons and generally neutrons, surrounded by an electromagnetically bound swarm of electrons. The chemical elements are distinguished fr ...

: A popular feed format developed as an alternative to RSS. ; Autocasting : An automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from RSS feeds. ; Audioblog : A blog where the posts consist mainly of voice recordings sent by mobile phone, sometimes with some short text messages added for

metadata Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive ...

purposes. (

cf. The abbreviation cf. (short for either Latin or , both meaning 'compare') is generally used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed. However some sources offer differing or even contr ...

podcasting A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. Typically, a podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files that users can download to a personal device or stream to listen to at a time of their ...

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;Beauty Blog : Beauty blogs are niche blogs that cover

cosmetics Cosmetics are substances that are intended for application to the body for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering appearance. They are mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either Natural product, natural source ...

, makeup or skincare related topics, events, product launches, product reviews, nail-art, makeup trends, highly curated products, insider tips from tastemakers and celebrities, et cetera. ;Blawg : A blog about law and legal issues. ;Bleg : An entry in a blog requesting information or contributions. A

portmanteau In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together.

of "blog" and "beg." also called "Lazyweb." ;Blog Carnival : A

blog A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...

article that contains links to other articles covering a specific topic. Most blog carnivals are hosted by a rotating list of frequent contributors to the carnival, and serve to both generate new posts by contributors and highlight new bloggers posting matter in that subject area. ; Blog client : (weblog client) is software to manage (post, edit) blogs from the 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 publishing service : A software that is used to create the blog. Some of the most popular are WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, and Joomla. ;

ger : Person who runs a blog. Also blogger.com, a popular blog hosting website. Rarely weblogger. ; Bloggernacle : Blogs written by and for Mormons (a

portmanteau In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together.

of "blog" and "

Tabernacle According to the Hebrew Bible, the tabernacle (), also known as the Tent of the Congregation (, also Tent of Meeting), was the portable earthly dwelling of God used by the Israelites from the Exodus until the conquest of Canaan. Moses was instru ...

"). Generally refers to faithful Mormon bloggers and sometimes refers to a specific grouping of faithful Mormon bloggers. ; Bloggies : One of the most popular blog awards ; Blogroll : A list of other blogs that a blogger might recommend by providing links to them (usually in a sidebar list). ; Blogosphere : All blogs, or the blogging community. ; Blogware : A category of software that consists of a specialized form of a

Content Management System A content management system (CMS) is computer software used to manage the creation and modification of digital content ( content management).''Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy''. Ann Rockley, Pamela Kostur, Steve Manning. New ...

specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs. ; The BOBs : The largest international blog awards.

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;Catblogging (traditionally "Friday catblogging", sometime "Caturday") : The practice of posting pictures of cats, in typical cat postures and expressions, on a

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Collaborative blog A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...

: A blog (usually focused on a single issue or political stripe) on which multiple users enjoy posting permission. Also known as group blog. ; Comment spam : Like e-mail spam. Robot “spambots” flood a blog with advertising in the form of bogus comments. A serious problem that requires bloggers and blog platforms to have tools to exclude some users or ban some addresses in comments.

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; Desktop Blogging Client : An off-line blog management (posting, editing, and archiving) tool ;Domain Name : A domain name is the name of a blog/website. Google.com and Wikipedia.org are examples of blogs/websites' names.

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;Event blogging : When marketers create new blogs for upcoming events. For that, they buy EMDs or exact match domains for the upcoming events to attract people who are searching for that event. Because their domain is rich with keywords, they get better rankings in search engines. However, to establish an event blog, event bloggers may start working on their blogs 6 months or more before the event to make a decent amount of content and to get quality backlinks.

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; Fisking/To fisk :To rebut a news report line-by-line, or the result of doing so. ; Flog :A

portmanteau In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together.

of "fake" and "blog"; a form of

astroturfing Astroturfing is the deceptive practice of hiding the Sponsor (commercial), sponsors of an orchestrated message or organization (e.g., political, economic, advertising, religious, or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from ...

. :A food blog; sometimes, a blog dedicated to food porn. ;Feeds : RSS Feeds.

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; Health blog : A blog that covers health topics, events, and/or related content of the health industry and the general community. In short, anything related to health.

J

; J-blog : A journalist blog. : A blog with a Jewish focus.

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;Legal blog : A blog about the law. ;

Lifelog A lifelog is a personal record of one's daily life in a varying amount of detail, for a variety of purposes. The record contains a comprehensive dataset of a human's activities. The data could be used to increase knowledge about how people liv ...

: A blog that captures a person's entire life. ;List blog : A blog consisting solely of list-style posts. ; Listicle : A short-form of writing that uses a list as its thematic structure but is fleshed out with sufficient copy to be published as an article. ;Litblog : A blog that focuses primarily on the topic of literature.

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; Milblog : A blog written by members or veterans of any branch of military service -

Army An army, ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by ...

Navy A navy, naval force, military maritime fleet, war navy, or maritime force is the military branch, branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral z ...

Air Force An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army aviati ...

, or

Marines Marines (or naval infantry) are military personnel generally trained to operate on both land and sea, with a particular focus on amphibious warfare. Historically, the main tasks undertaken by marines have included Raid (military), raiding ashor ...

. A contraction of ''military'' and ''blog''. ; Moblog : A

portmanteau In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together.

of "mobile" and "blog". A blog featuring posts sent mainly by

mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...

, using SMS or MMS messages. They are often photoblogs. ; Mommy blog : A blog featuring discussions especially about

home A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or more human occupants, and sometimes various companion animals. Homes provide sheltered spaces, for instance rooms, where domestic activity can be p ...

and

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

. ;Multiblog : A blog constructed as a conversation between more than two people.

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; Permalink : Permanent link. The unique URL of a single post. Use this when you want to link to a post somewhere. ; Phlog : Type of blog utilising the

Gopher protocol The Gopher protocol () is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative t ...

instead of

HTTP HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, wher ...

:A Photoblog. A

portmanteau In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together.

of "photo" and "blog". ; Photoblog : A blog mostly containing photos, posted constantly and chronologically. ; Pingback : The alert in the TrackBack system that notifies the original poster of a blog post when someone else writes an entry concerning the original post. ;

Podcasting A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. Typically, a podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files that users can download to a personal device or stream to listen to at a time of their ...

: Contraction of “iPod” and “broadcasting” (but not for iPods only). Posting audio and video material on a blog and its RSS feed, for digital players. ;Post or blog Post : A blog post is a piece of writings in the form of an article that's published on a blog by a blogger. ;Post Slug : For blogs with common language URLs, the post slug is the portion of the URL that represents the post, such as "all-about-my-holiday" in www.example.com/all-about-my-holiday

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; RSS : Really Simple Syndication is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, or podcasts. ; RSS aggregator : Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on their favorite blogs. Also called a reader or feedreader. ; RSS feed : The file containing a blog’s latest posts It is read by an RSS aggregator or reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of the post, or the entire post.

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; Search engine friendly URLs : or, for short, ''SEF URLs'', implemented via URL mapping. ; Spam blog : A blog that is composed of spam. A Spam blog or "any blog whose creator doesn't add any written value." ; Slashdot effect : The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or another website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also

Digg Digg (stylized in lowercase as digg) is an American news aggregator with a curated front page, aiming to select articles specifically for the Internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral phenomenon, viral Internet iss ...

, Metafilter, Boing Boing,

Instapundit Instapundit is a conservative blog maintained by Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee. History and characteristics InstaPundit was launched in August 2001 as an experiment, and a part of Reynolds' class on Internet law ...

and others) sending huge amounts of temporary traffic that often slow down the server. ;Soldierblog :see Milblog ; Subscribe : The term used when a blogs feed is added to a feed reader like Bloglines or

Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

. Some blogging platforms have internal subscriptions, this allows readers to receive a notification when there are new posts in a blog. A subscriber is a person who is willing to receive blogger's news and updates.

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; Templates : Templates, used on the "back end" of a blog that works together to handle information and present it on a blog. ; Theme : CSS based code that when applied to the templates will result in visual element changes to the blog. The theme, as a whole, is also referred to as a blog design. ; TrackBack : A system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a 'ping' between the blogs and therefore providing the alert.

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Vlog A vlog (), also known as a video blog or video log, is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one ta ...

: A video blog; a vlogger is a video blogger (e.g. someone who records himself interviewing people of a certain field).

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; Warblog : A blog devoted mostly or wholly to covering news events concerning an ongoing war. ;

Weblog A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...

: The unshortened version of 'blog'.

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