Deciding a Layout for your Blog

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <i><br /></i> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4NuKS6Khzkyb3wsYDZtc3l29ZKksPWVtt5MmyVgqRrzQlrZrJvDeoZuu0vvzRXiFELvj6hVO3IG-rMeDjEX8aH0XkVirQHt8cqHKqxZ1-MjPx7ohH9gDGvP7qR7KDbiGFH0zEjbfZp0Z/s1600/blog+layout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Deciding A Blog Layout - http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com" border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4NuKS6Khzkyb3wsYDZtc3l29ZKksPWVtt5MmyVgqRrzQlrZrJvDeoZuu0vvzRXiFELvj6hVO3IG-rMeDjEX8aH0XkVirQHt8cqHKqxZ1-MjPx7ohH9gDGvP7qR7KDbiGFH0zEjbfZp0Z/s400/blog+layout.jpg" title="Deciding A Blog Layout - http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com" width="400" /></a></div> <i><br /></i> <i><br /></i> <i>Many Bloggers don't pay attention to their layout. Almost every new blogger just creates a blog and selects a default template or get some template from other free or paid template providing websites. But the most important thing that they do not pay attention to is : <b>Layout. </b>Some who pay attention to the layout select or design the layout that they like. But what about the visitors? After all every blogger make content for its visitors. So, how to understand which layout visitors prefer more? Here are few tips that may help you to select your layout:</i><br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> What should be the size?</h3> <br /> Nearly 70% of internet users have big screen of resolution of either 1024x768(most), 1280x800, or 1280x1024. So, you could select a layout that looks good in big screen with high resolutions but do not forget the rest 30% visitors with small screen and low resolutions. Because every visitor is important. So select a layout that does not have horizontal scroll. Visitors hate to scroll horizontally.<br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Which alignment to choose?</h3> <br /> As you have seen that most users use big screen. So, in my opinion you should use center aligned layout. Not only it looks great in big screens but also makes your layout more adjustable.<br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> How much columns to choose?</h3> <br /> Choose either a 2 or 3 columns layout. And it would be better if you keep the sidebars on the right because visitors look for menu items and other action items Make sure that your post content is not thinner than the sidebar(s).<br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Outline Blocks or not?</h3> <br /> Test shows that outlining your blocks (For Example: Social bookmarks, forms, blogrolls, categories, etc) is better.<br /> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> Also Read: <i><a href="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.in/2013/07/blog-design-and-content-guidelines.html" target="_blank">Blog Design And Content Guidelines</a></i></h3> <br /> <br /></div>

Deciding a Layout for your Blog

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Tips on choosing a good domain name for your Blog.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9SGuUbZORjwOwNVWWLMh8DJ0GHMOFIDtTe5ImxyApWiSWFyO5j4tqFxmcOU0tvKMsttq5t-tbYq9_K5yY7UMTiOlfmSymT9PzJv-e4sA7wl9AZY1gPFCd26jMeOpoj-6xKfHW8k1G0_B/s1600/Choosing-New-Domain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com" border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9SGuUbZORjwOwNVWWLMh8DJ0GHMOFIDtTe5ImxyApWiSWFyO5j4tqFxmcOU0tvKMsttq5t-tbYq9_K5yY7UMTiOlfmSymT9PzJv-e4sA7wl9AZY1gPFCd26jMeOpoj-6xKfHW8k1G0_B/s400/Choosing-New-Domain.jpg" title="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com" width="400" /></a></div> <div> <i><br /></i></div> <i>Before you start a blog the most important things you decide about your blog are blog title, niche and <b>domain name. </b>Then comes other things like design etc. Here are some points that you might want consider while choosing a domain name for your blog. </i><br /> <div> <br /></div> <div> <b>Ensure your blog name and domain are same:</b> Before rushing to select a domain name make sure that your website name/title should be your domain name. It is quite obvious that many websites/blogs  have the name of their blog as their domain name. It is really important that it must be same as it insures better remembrance of your blog. For eg: If your blog name is <b>technology today</b> and your domain is mywebsite.com . Many will have confusion with the domain name and title and they might visit technologytoday.com next time. </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <b>Select a unique domain name:</b> Selecting a unique name is the most important for your blog. Selecting a unique domain gives it a unique identity. Also check that nobody has that domain name registered. Like if you selected a domain name gogo.com make sure that nobody has a similar domain name reserved earlier like gogo.net, gogo.org, gogo.info etc. Selecting a same domain name is a crime too. </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <b>Select a brand name rather than a generic name :</b> A lot of people prefer generic names as their domain name. But generic names are not good as they are too costly. Consider a example if you have a blog on mobiles and have a domain mobile.com it would be good but taking price in mind I'll say it is not worth it as it has less influence on the visitors also. Selecting a brand name will help you to increase your brand value.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <b>Use long or short names:</b> A lot of us have confusion whether the domain name should be short or long? You can select a domain name upto 67 characters. It truly depends on you But here is a good explanation by thesitewizard.com -whether domain names should be long or short :</div> <div> <br /></div> <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Some argue that shorter domain names are easier to remember, easier to type and far less susceptible to mistakes: for example, "getit.com" is easier to remember and less prone to typos than "connecttomywebsiteandobtainit.com".</blockquote> <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Others argue that a longer domain name is usually easier on the human memory - for example, "gaepw.com" is a sequence of unrelated letters that is difficult to remember and type correctly, whereas if we expand it to its long form, "GetAnEconomicallyPricedWebsite.com", we are more likely to remember the domain name.</blockquote> <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Some of these arguments are actually academic. It's increasingly difficult to get short meaningful domain names. I have not checked, but I'm fairly certain that names like "getit.com" and "good.com" have long been sold. If you manage to get a short domain name though, the key is to make sure it's a meaningful combination of characters and not the obscure "gaepw.com" in my contrived example above.</blockquote> <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Long domain names that have your site keywords in them also have an advantage in that they fare better in a number of search engines. The latter give preference to keywords that are also found in your domain names. So, for example, if you have a site on free C++ compilers with a domain name like freecpluspluscompilers.com, it might fare better in a search for "free C++ compilers" than the corresponding page on my other website, thefreecountry.com.</blockquote> <div> <br /></div> So What to choose long or short? As I said earlier it truly depends on you. But I would prefer to choose a medium sized domain that well defines your site and is easy to remember.<br /> <div> <br /></div> <div> <b>Use hyphenated names or not:</b> </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Using a hyphenated domain name has two advantages. First it is easy to get and cheap. Second search engines can distinguish your keywords in domain better. But using it will not be human friendly as many often forget to use hyphens while typing the domain names. So use hyphens or not? Personally I would suggest not to use hyphens but you can use if you want search engines to better understand your domain keywords.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <b>.COM , .ORG, .NET etc which one to use???</b></div> <div> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnm8BFEw80RTVsJfkNVEUdUxUBrzlAnoR1J25PwNRcSAwBSa_DNS4hwL-6slM5Hg3dOqIxVs6_XH9Bmvu5p7jTiz8VLRuuPlLxn9-24nCIiKMHn4sPtKpRrqciZ4W_470vVzdpAn_Kjn-/s1600/domain+suffix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com" border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnm8BFEw80RTVsJfkNVEUdUxUBrzlAnoR1J25PwNRcSAwBSa_DNS4hwL-6slM5Hg3dOqIxVs6_XH9Bmvu5p7jTiz8VLRuuPlLxn9-24nCIiKMHn4sPtKpRrqciZ4W_470vVzdpAn_Kjn-/s320/domain+suffix.jpg" title="http://pretoproblogger.blogspot.com" width="320" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> I would recommend to use .com as it is very common and the best one. But it depends on the site category. If it is a website of a organization use .ORG as it defines your site type and so on every Domain suffix has its own meaning. Check which category it falls and select the one for you. If you are confused simply just opt for a .COM domain it is the best one.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <b>I am sure that now you are ready to select your domain name.</b></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <i>Still Have any queries let me know through the comments section..</i></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> <br> <script type="text/javascript"> ch_fluidH = 1; ch_nump = "3"; ch_client = "pretoproblogger"; ch_width = 600; ch_height = "auto"; ch_type = "mpu"; ch_sid = "Chitika Default"; ch_color_site_link = "000000"; ch_color_title = "000000"; ch_color_border = "FFFFFF"; ch_color_text = "000000"; ch_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; </script> <script src="http://scripts.chitika.net/eminimalls/amm.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>

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Blogging Terms, Unusual blog abbreviations and blogging acronyms.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAT3XMAzLGmJirqor3s-j-DUwFllFtkyHfOlfKcSjIzu6Zwqv6vDhoS2EtV1DSkCifTDV_JZw8enpB9wwOIWivluAoOQlLU9bDzEGnjWFQ3YzxbM2iZyao7oVb_Z-U1kNbfwoq9MT9aPmb/s1600/blogterms-bloggerloads.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Blog Terms - a glossary" border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAT3XMAzLGmJirqor3s-j-DUwFllFtkyHfOlfKcSjIzu6Zwqv6vDhoS2EtV1DSkCifTDV_JZw8enpB9wwOIWivluAoOQlLU9bDzEGnjWFQ3YzxbM2iZyao7oVb_Z-U1kNbfwoq9MT9aPmb/s400/blogterms-bloggerloads.jpg" title="Blog Terms - a glossary" width="400" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are you puzzled by strange <b>blogging terms</b> and unusual <b>blog abbreviations</b> and <b>blogging acronyms</b>? I was to so I googled for many blogging Terms and so here is a list of some Blogging terms... But no technical definition is given here. PreBloggers(newbie) could even understand it. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGING</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Weblog</strong>- An online dated diary listing your periodic thoughts on a specific topic, often in reverse chronological order.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog</strong> – short form for weblog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogging </strong>- the act of posting on blogs</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogger </strong>- a person who blogs</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogosphere </strong>- The internet blogging community</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGING FORMS</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Photoblogging </strong>- a blog predominantly using and focusing on photographs and images. Photoblogs are created by <strong>photobloggers</strong></span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Podcasting </strong>- a method of distributing multimedia files (audio / videos) online using feeds for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. <strong>Podcasts</strong> are created by <strong>podcasters</strong>.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Autocasting </strong>- is an automated form of podcasting</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogcasting </strong>- the blog and the podcast merged into a single website.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Vlogging </strong>- Also called <strong>video blogging</strong>. Shortened to <strong>vlog</strong>. Posted by<strong>vlogger</strong>. A variant on the blogging using video instead of text.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Audioblogging </strong>- Also called <strong>audioblog</strong>, MP3 blog or musicblogs. a variant on the blogging using audio instead of text. Created by<strong>audioblogger</strong>.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Moblogging </strong>- Also called <strong>moblogs</strong>. A blog posted and maintained via mobile phone. Moblogs are created by <strong>mobloggers</strong>.</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOG COMPONENTS AND FUNCTIONS</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Index page</strong> – the front page fo the blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Header </strong>- the topmost part of the blog usually listing the blog title.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Footer </strong>- the most bottom part of the blog usually listing navigation and copyright statements</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Sidebar </strong>- One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Categories </strong>- A collection of topic specific posts</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Post, Entry</strong>- individual articles that make up a blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Comments </strong>- enabling readers to leave their remarks</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Captcha </strong>- 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.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Ping</strong> – Short for Packet Internet Grouper. Blog and ping helps to notify other blog tracking tools for updates, changes and trackbacks.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Trackback </strong>- A system by which a ping is sent to another blog to notify that their article has been mentioned by you</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Pingback </strong>- See trackback.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Permalink </strong>- A link to a specific article</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tags </strong>- labelling / attaching keywords to collect similar posts</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tag cloud</strong> – Displaying tags lists or keywords in a blog.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogroll </strong>- list of links to other blogs in your sidebar. Also see blogrolling.com</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Sideblog </strong>- A smaller blog usually placed in the sidebar of a blog.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Template </strong>- the blog presentation design</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BlogThis </strong>- a function allows a blogger to blog the entry they a reading</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Plugins </strong>- Small files that add improved functionality and new features. WordPress plugins can greatly improve your blog usage and interactivity</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Dashboard </strong>- When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Archives</strong> – a collection of all your posts on one page. Can be categorized by month etc.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Expandable post summaries</strong> – show a small teaser part of the post on the index page that link to the full post.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Jump</strong> – the continuation of a the story on another page to preserve space on index page.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>FTP </strong>- short for file transfer protocol. Transferring file to and fro from your web host using FTP tools like Filezilla</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WEB FEEDS</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Web Feed</strong> – allows online users to subscribe to websites that change or add content regularly.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>RSS </strong>- a family of web feed formats used for Web syndication. Short form for Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0), Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0), RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0). WordPress generates RSS 2.0</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>XML </strong>- short for eXtensible Markup Language. a general-purpose markup language for syndication formats used on blogs.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>RDF </strong>- short for Resource Description Framework. A web content syndication format.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Atom </strong>- another specific web feed format. Blogger feeds are usually of this type.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>OPML</strong> – short for Outline Processor Markup Language. It is an XML format for outlines. Easily import and export multiple blog subscriptions between different rss aggregators.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Photofeed</strong>- a web feed with image enclosures.</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGING SOFTWARE / CLIENTS</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogger </strong>- a free blogging platform by Google.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogspot </strong>- free Blogger hosting blog at name.blogspot.com</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>LiveJournal </strong>- free blogging tool by SixApart</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Movable Type</strong> – paid blogging tool by SixApart</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Typepad </strong>- paid blogging tool by SixApart</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>WordPress.org</strong>- Free. Easy to Upload, customize and upgrade.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>WordPress.com</strong> – A WordPress blog hosted free for you.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Radio Userland</strong> – another blog publishing software package</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TYPES OF BLOGS</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Group blog</strong>- with multiple contributing bloggers.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Event blog</strong> – focussed on an event</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Kittyblogger</strong> – writing about cats.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Celeblog</strong> – focused on a celebrity.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Celebriblog</strong> – maintained by a celebrity.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Clog Blog</strong> – written in Dutch and/or in Holland.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>CEOBlog</strong> – run by a chief executive officer.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Plog </strong>- a project blog. Also for Amazon.com personalised weblogs</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Movlogs </strong>- mobile video blogs.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Splog</strong>- a spam blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Tech blog</strong> – focused on a technical subject.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Anonoblog</strong> – by an anonymous blogger</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Linguablog </strong>- about linguistics, translation etc.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Metablog</strong> – a blog about blogging.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Milblog </strong>- a military blog.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blawg</strong> – blogged by lawyer / related to legal stuff</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Edu-blog</strong> – education oriented blog.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Progblog </strong>- A progressive blog.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Shocklog </strong>- provokes discussion by posting shocking content</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Klog </strong>- used by company knowledge workers. by Kloggers</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogsite </strong>- A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Dark Blog</strong>- A non-public blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Photocast</strong>- a photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">BLOGGING HABITS</span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Metablogging </strong>- writing articles about blogging</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogstipation </strong>- writer’s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog about?</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogathy </strong>- I do not want to post today and I do not care about it</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogopotamus </strong>- A long long blog post</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogorrhea </strong>- unusually high output of articles</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bleg </strong>- To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Hitnosis </strong>- Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>GAD </strong>- Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your adsense earnings.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blego </strong>- Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog hopping</strong> – jumping from one blog to another</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogroach </strong>- A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogoholic </strong>- addicted to blogging</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogorific </strong>= blogtastic – something which a blogger says is terrific</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogsit </strong>- maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogvertising </strong>- Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blurker </strong>- a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogathon </strong>- update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe collect sponsorships.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogiversary </strong>- your blog birthday</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog Carnival</strong> – Links to other articles covering a specific topic.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Multiblog </strong>- running multiple blogs</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog Tipping</strong> – Compliment 3 blogs on day 1 of every month.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogger bash </strong>- a blogger party</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Commenter </strong>- someone who leaves remarks / comments</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Reciprocal Links </strong>- called link love. You link to my blog, I link to yours. To improve search engine rankings.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Linkbaiting </strong>- a habit of writing good content with the sole purpose of getting it linked from multiple sites.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogstorm</strong> – a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogsnob</strong> – refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Doppelblogger</strong> – plagiarize the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogophobia</strong> – Fear of blogs and blogging.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloggerel</strong> – the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGER TYPES</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Problogger </strong>- professional blogger</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blognoscenti </strong>- especially knowledgable bloggers</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogebrity </strong>- a famous blogger.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogerati </strong>- the blogosphere intelligentsia.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Commentariat </strong>- The community of those leaving comments.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Dooced </strong>- lost a job because of blog entries. To Dooce.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogther </strong>- a fellow blogger.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>A-List</strong>- the top bloggers who influence the blogosphere.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogstar</strong>- blogger running a popular blog</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OTHER BLOGGING TERMS</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloggies</strong>- Annual blogging awards.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>MSM </strong>- Mainstream Media, or old media like newspapers etc.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BSM </strong>- Blogstream media. from most heavily trafficked blogs.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog Day</strong> – 31 August. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting and tell them.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blaudience </strong>- your blog audience.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blargon </strong>- Also called <strong>Blogssary</strong>. Blogging slang and glossary. What I am telling you now.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogiversary </strong>- your blog birthday</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogiverse </strong>– see blogosphere</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>XFN</strong> – short for XHTML Friends Network. Is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogonomics </strong>- blogging conference on a Blog Cruise in 2006.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>EFF </strong>- short for Electronic Frontier Foundation. A nonprofit group working to protect blogger rights.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blog of Note</strong> – a recommended blog.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Navbar </strong>- a navigation bar usually seen on top of Blogger blogspot hosted blogs.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blook </strong>- a book created from a blog.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Hat Tip</strong>- acknowledgement of the source that tipped you the news.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Spomments</strong>- Spam comments</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blammer</strong>- Blog spammer</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>SOB</strong>- acronym for Successful and Outstanding Blogger. From successful-blog.com</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogiday</strong>- you get fed up and take a holiday from blogging</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOGGING TOOLS & SERVICES</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, Kinja, </strong>– are <strong>News Aggregators</strong> 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</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Pageflakes, Newsvine</strong> – Track multiple feeds on a single page by modules.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Odeo, Podnova </strong>– are <strong>Podcatchers</strong>, a form of aggregator used to automatically download podcasts and can sometimes transfer a portable media player. Like</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Feedburner </strong>- a professional feed management system</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Pingomatic, Pingoat</strong> – ping multiple blog tracking services.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Feedblitz, Zokooda</strong> – Email subscriptions and newletter tools.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Technorati</strong> – a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>b5media, 9rules</strong> – examples of popular blogging networks. Collection of blogs and bloggers providing great content, with revenue sharing sometimes.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>K2, Blix</strong> – names of some popular wordpress themes.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogexplosion(closed), Blogclicker</strong>- popular blog traffic generation / exchange services.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://google.com/adsense">Adsense</a>, Adbrite, CJ, <a href="http://chitika.com/">Chitka</a>, Blogads</strong> – popular affiliate programs to generate money from your blogs.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Sphere, Icerocket</strong> – blog search engines</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Live Bookmarks</strong> – a firefox web browser feature. Update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Creative Commons</strong> – licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>CoComment </strong>- Tracks your comments across different platforms and follow conversations</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>WBloggar, Ecto, Qumanna</strong> – desktop blog publishing tools</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Mint, Mybloglog, Measuremap, Analytics</strong> – site traffic tracking tools.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Haloscan</strong>- free trackback service</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>YouTube, Rapidshare</strong>- puts video on your blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Flickr, Imageshack </strong>- photo sharing service. Host images on your blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Del.icio.us, furl, spurl</strong> – share social bookmarks.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogburst </strong>- Syndicating your feed to top publishers.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloggeropoly </strong>- professional blogger recruiting agency</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Blogger code</strong> – a way to describe different types of bloggers.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Bloggoggle </strong>- Directory of Blogging Professionals</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BlogHer </strong>- where the women bloggers are. At Blogher.org</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BLOG TRAFFIC SURGES</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Digged </strong>- link posted on digg.com driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Slashdotted </strong>- link posted on slashdot.org driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Instalanche </strong>- link posted on instapundit.com driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Farked</strong> – link posted on fark.com driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Boing Boinged</strong> – link posted on boingboing.net driving huge traffic to your blog</span></li> </ul> <span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MISCELLANEOUS BLOGGING TERMS</span></span><br /> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Ajax </strong>- acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. creates interactive web applications.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Greasemonkey </strong>- a firefox web browser extension that can alter the functionality of any website using specific scripts.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Wiki </strong>- a collaborative on-line software that allows readers to add and edit content.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>SEO </strong>- search engine optimization. To improve your search engine rankings.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Page Rank</strong> – Google measures of importance of a page which reflects in its rankings.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25.59375px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> <li style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>CMS</strong> – short for Content management system. software used to publish and manage websites.</span></li> </ul> <br /> <br /> <div> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is <b>NOT</b> a substitute for dictionary meaning or a strict definition of these terms, but a simple layman approach to understanding what they mean. 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Blogging Terms, Unusual blog abbreviations and blogging acronyms.

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What is a Blog?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-q6hjE_kgfI_3mpo5y_6xYBmMx1Jl6FQ1yIqKnWubdqjG7txKZ1JSctAe-L0EEgh5jLJ4OUigJBG2wcu_VK-00ryzJTiquj00CuasM8NAiiYothLwCyZk69kuNr-EwIfoYWquVJj1DPou/s1600/what+is+a+blog(pretoproblogger.blogspot.com).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-q6hjE_kgfI_3mpo5y_6xYBmMx1Jl6FQ1yIqKnWubdqjG7txKZ1JSctAe-L0EEgh5jLJ4OUigJBG2wcu_VK-00ryzJTiquj00CuasM8NAiiYothLwCyZk69kuNr-EwIfoYWquVJj1DPou/s400/what+is+a+blog(pretoproblogger.blogspot.com).jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> The Most Basic thing a Preblogger should Know Before Starting a Blog is - What is a blog? Everybody has there own opinion about a blog. So, What is a Blog...</h3> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to me) </h2> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> -A blog is just like a online diary with some extra features . Unlike Diaries, blogs are intended to be public. well they can be set private. Services like <a href="http://blogger.com/">blogger.com</a> allows a person to keep his/her blog private</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to <a href="http://google.com/">Google</a>) </h2> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> - a blog is web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ?(According to <a href="http://wikipedia.org/">wikipedia</a>)</h2> <div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> - A blog (a contraction of the words web log) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, interest groups and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into societal newstreams. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously, a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish content on the Web.) A majority are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via GUI widgets on the blogs, and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites. In that sense, blogging can be seen as a form of social networking. Indeed, bloggers do not only produce content to post on their blogs, but also build social relations with their readers and other bloggers. There are high-readership blogs which do not allow comments, such as Daring Fireball. Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries; others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important contribution to the popularity of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blogs), photographs (photoblogs), videos (video blogs or "vlogs"), music (MP3 blogs), and audio (podcasts). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts. In education, blogs can be used as instructional resources. These blogs are referred to as edublogs. On 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence. On 13 October 2012, there were around 77 million <a href="http://tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> and 56.6 million<a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress</a> blogs in existence worldwide. According to critics and other bloggers, <a href="http://blogger.com/">Blogger</a> is the most popular blogging service used today.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to <a href="http://dailyblogtips.com/">Dailyblogtips.com</a> )</h2> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> - A blog is basically a type of website, like a forum or a social bookmarking site. As such it is defined by the technical aspects and features around it, and not by the content published inside it.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="text-align: left;">The features that make blogs different from other websites are:</li> <li style="text-align: left;">content is published in a chronological fashion</li> <li style="text-align: left;">content is updated regularly</li> <li style="text-align: left;">readers have the possibility to leave comments</li> <li style="text-align: left;">other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and pingbacks</li> <li style="text-align: left;">content is syndicated via RSS feeds</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Keep in mind that it is the bundle of those features that should define a blog. An online forum could also offer an RSS feed for example, but that would not make it a blog.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to <a href="http://marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/">marketingterms</a>) </h2> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> -A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people. People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process. Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files. </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to <a href="http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Weblog">wordIq</a>)</h2> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> -A weblog, or simply a blog, is a website which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage. Such a web site would typically be accessible to any Internet user. Part of the reason "blog" was coined and commonly accepted into use is the fact that in saying "blog", confusion with server log is avoided. Individual posts (which taken together are the blog or weblog) either share a particular theme, or a single or small group of authors.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to  <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/blog.html">webopedia</a>) </h2> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> -n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> (v.) To author a Web log. Other forms: Blogger (a person who blogs).</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=blog">reference.com</a>) </h2> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> - a personal Web site that provides updated headlines and news articles of other sites that are of interest to the user, also may include journal entries, commentaries and recommendations compiled by the user; also written web log, Weblog; also called blog.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatMakesAWeblogAWeblog">harvard</a>) </h2> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> -A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser. </div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to  <a href="http://www.bloggerforum.com/blog/blog.htm">BloggerForum</a>) </h2> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> -Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site. Blogs have common elements: updated frequently (usually daily); informal; grouped by date with links to archives of older posts; informative and/or inspiring (the good ones); frequently linked to other sites that inspired the blog; and addictive for those who blog. The author of a blog is often referred to as a blogger. When we add an entry to our blogs, we may often say we blogged today.</div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> What is a blog ? (According to <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blog&f=1">UrbanDictionary</a>) </h2> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"> -  Short for weblog. A meandering, blatantly uninteresting online diary that gives the author the illusion that people are interested in their stupid, pathetic life.</div> </div> <div> <table class="vk_txt ts" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #212121; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="padding: 0px;"><table class="ts" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody> </tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <br /> <script type="text/javascript"> ch_fluidH = 1; ch_nump = "3"; ch_client = "pretoproblogger"; ch_width = 600; ch_height = "auto"; ch_type = "mpu"; ch_sid = "Chitika Default"; ch_color_site_link = "000000"; ch_color_title = "000000"; ch_color_border = "FFFFFF"; ch_color_text = "000000"; ch_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; </script> <script src="http://scripts.chitika.net/eminimalls/amm.js" type="text/javascript"> </script></div>

What is a Blog?

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