The Blogging Dictionary - A to Z Glossary of Blogging (First Edition) Part- 2

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C


Cache - temporary storage space; web pages you visit are stored in your browser�s cache directory on your hard drive, when you return to a recently visited page, your browser displays it from the cache, not the web, saving you time and reducing traffic on the server.

Cam - short for webcam.

Captcha - short form of Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. These word and letter verification images you need to type in to show that you are a human and not a robot. Helpful to block spam comments.

Categories - a way of grouping specific types of posts through placing them in categories.

Celeblog - focused on a celebrity.

Celebriblog - maintained by a celebrity.

CEOBlog - a blog written and maintained by the CEO of a company

CGI - common gateway interface; a method of handling forms on web sites

CGI-bin - the most common web server directory that stores CGI programs and scripts.

Clog Blog - written in Dutch and/or in Holland.

CMS - content management system. Any tool used to organize data; in bloggerville this generally means a web-based application such as blogger or greymatter which is used to organize journal entries (posts).

CoComment - Tracks your comments across different platforms and follow conversations.

Collaborative blog - A blog (usually focused on a single issue or political stripe) on which multiple users enjoy posting permission. Also known as group blog.

Comment Box - A box which is placed at the end of blog post where readers share their personal views regarding blog post.

Comment spam - Bogus comments posted by spambots for the sake of advertisements on blogs. 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.

Commentariat - The community of those leaving comments.

Commenter - someone who leaves remarks / comments on a blog post

Comments - a response left by a blog visitor regarding a post, article, page, etc.

Commission Junction - an affiliate marketing hub that connects bloggers and business owners with the premise of exchanging web presence with cash.

Content - any sort of written, filmed, or recorded material developed for print or publication.

Content Management System (CMS) - a program used to maintain multiple websites in one place.

CPC - stands for cost per click, which refers to how much an advertiser will pay per individual click on an ad you host on your site.

CPM - cost per mille, or how much an advertiser will pay per 1,000 views of their ads on your website.

Crawlability - the level at which search engines can �crawl� and search a website.

Crawlable - websites that are open and accessible to search engines (who �crawl� these sites with their spider-like programs).

Creative Commons - licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors to offer a voluntary �some rights reserved� approach.




D


Dark Blog - A non-public blog

Dashboard - When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.

Del.icio.us, furl, spurl - share social bookmarks.

Derling - a superior; the opposite of underling (obviously).

Desktop Blogging Client - An off-line blog management (posting, editing and archiving) tool.

Digged - link posted on digg.com driving huge traffic to your blog.

Dink- acronym - �delving into naked kvetching�.

Do-Follow link - Link that search engine counts.

Dooced - lost a job because of blog entries. To Dooce.

Doppelblogger - plagiarize the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.

Draft - an unpublished, preliminary version of an article or post.




E


Edit - the practice of revising and rewriting content to create a customized and appropriate work

Edu-blog - education oriented blog. Short form of Education Blog.

Education Blog - Blog that shares information regarding study, colleges, universities, Exams, Tests, etc.

EFF - short for Electronic Frontier Foundation. A nonprofit group working to protect blogger rights.

eGads - the electronic form of regular gads; much faster than regular gads and a common method of communication, exclamation, or gyration in Bloggerville

Ego-surfing - to ego-surf is to use any search engine (especially blog search engines) to find other sites (particularly blogs) that are linking to you

EMail whore - someone who will do anything on their blog to get email

Event blog - focussed on an event

Expandable post summaries - show a small teaser part of the post on the index page that link to the full post.




F


Farked - link posted on fark.com driving huge traffic to your blog

Faux html - writing something in contrived HTML tags to make a point or express a feeling which may otherwise not be conveyed through words alone; example: <exasperated>Stop it!</exasperated>

Fauxcam - a graphic on a web site which appears as if it is being generated by a webcam but which is really just a static image

Featurette - a �special� item on a blogger�s blog, usually relevant to Bloggervilleresidents and no one else; see also Appendix B � Featurettes.

Feedblitz, Zokooda - Email subscriptions and newletter tools Flickr, Imageshack - photo sharing service. Host images on your blog.

Feedburner - a professional feed management system.

Feeds - RSS Feed generally used to broadcast your blog post.

Finance Blog - Blog that shares information on finance (monetory).

Fisking - To prove blog entry is wrong in line by line fashion.

Flog - A portmanteau of "fake" and "blog". A blog that's ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department. A food blog; sometimes, a blog dedicated to food porn.

Follow - the act of connecting with another blog, website, or social media profile with the intent to keep up-to-date with their every post and move.

Footer - the most bottom part of the blog usually listing navigation and copyright statements.

FTP - short for file transfer protocol. Transferring file to and fro from your web host using FTP tools like Filezilla.




G


GAD - Google Ad-sense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your Ad-sense earnings.

GBBC - acronym: �Gay Boy Bloggers Club�.

Giveaway - a contest hosted by a blog or business to give away a product or service; usually requires users to enter by performing specific acts like following on social media sites.

Google Ad-sense - It is Pay Per Click plan by Google to monetize your content.

Greasemonkey - a Firefox web browser extension that can alter the functionality of any website using specific scripts.

Group blog - with multiple contributing bloggers.

Guest Blogging - Guest blogger writes blog on other blog (host blog) for building links and relationship.

Guest Post - Post created by guest blogger on host blog.




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