Giant Blogging Terms Glossary: 200+ Blogging Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms Explained
Puzzled by blogging terms like permalink, pingback, slug or E-E-A-T? This giant blogging glossary explains common blogging terms, blog abbreviations and blogging acronyms in plain English, from the original “blargon” of the 2000s to the SEO, social and AI terms every blogger meets in 2026. It’s not a strict dictionary, just a simple, friendly guide for new bloggers.
Quick answer: The most important blogging terms to know are post, page, permalink, category, tag, CMS (such as WordPress), SEO, RSS feed, niche and analytics. Jump to the modern blogging terms below, then browse the full glossary.
Table of Contents
Modern blogging terms (2026)
- Niche – the specific topic a blog focuses on, such as tech tips or travel.
- Slug – the part of a post’s URL that identifies it, for example “blogging-terms-glossary”.
- Evergreen content – posts that stay useful for years, like how-to guides.
- Content refresh – updating older posts with current information to keep them useful and ranking.
- Keyword research – finding the words people search for, to plan posts around them.
- Search intent – what a searcher actually wants: information, a product, a website or a comparison.
- E-E-A-T – Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness, qualities Google looks for in helpful content.
- Core Web Vitals – Google’s measures of page speed, responsiveness and visual stability.
- Featured snippet – a highlighted answer box at the top of Google results.
- AI Overviews – AI-generated answer summaries shown at the top of some Google searches, with links to sources.
- Backlink – a link from another website to yours.
- Internal link – a link from one of your posts to another on your own site.
- Nofollow / sponsored – link attributes telling search engines not to pass ranking credit, used for ads and paid links.
- Schema markup – structured data code that helps search engines understand a page, such as FAQs or reviews.
- Bounce rate / engagement rate – how many visitors leave quickly versus interact with your site.
- Newsletter – regular emails to subscribers, now one of the most reliable ways for blogs to reach readers.
- Affiliate link – a link that earns you a commission when a reader buys something.
- RPM – revenue per thousand page views, used to measure ad earnings.
- Lead magnet – a free resource offered in exchange for an email sign-up.
- Creator economy – bloggers, YouTubers and podcasters earning a living from their content.
Classic blogging glossary
Here’s the original glossary, first compiled in 2006. Many of these terms are still used daily, while others (like some tools and traffic surges listed below) are now part of blogging history.
BLOGGING BASICS
Introduction to the very basic terms of blogging.
- Weblog– An online dated diary listing your periodic thoughts on a specific topic, often in reverse chronological order.
- Blog – short form for weblog, or web blog
- Blogging – the act of posting on blogs
- Blogger – a person who blogs
- Blogosphere – The internet blogging community
- CMS – Content management systems
BLOGGING FORMS
Terms used to specify various types of blogging.
- Photoblogging – a blog predominantly using and focusing on photographs and images. Photoblogs are created by photobloggers
- Podcasting – a method of distributing multimedia files (audio / videos) online using feeds for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcasts are created by podcasters.
- Autocasting – is an automated form of podcasting
- Blogcasting – the blog and the podcast merged into a single website.
- Vlogging – Also called video blogging. Shortened to vlog. Posted by vlogger. A variant on the blogging using video instead of text.
- Audioblogging – Also called audioblog, MP3 blog or musicblogs. a variant on the blogging using audio instead of text. Created by audioblogger.
- Moblogging – Also called moblogs. A blog posted and maintained via mobile phone. Moblogs are created by mobloggers.
BLOG COMPONENTS AND FUNCTIONS
Terms used to specify various parts of a blog, their role and how they function.
- Index page – the front page of the blog
- Header – the topmost part of the blog usually listing the blog title.
- Footer – the most bottom part of the blog usually listing navigation and copyright statements
- Sidebar – One or more columns along one or both sides of most blogs main page
- Categories – A collection of topic specific posts
- Post, Entry– individual articles that make up a blog
- Comments – enabling readers to leave their remarks
- Avatar – A small picture of the commenter beside their comment. Gravatar is an advanced tool which can generate avatars
- Captcha – 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. Helpful to block automated spam comments.
- Ping – Short for Packet Internet Grouper. Blog and ping helps to notify other blog tracking tools for updates, changes and trackbacks.
- Trackback – A system by which a ping is sent to another blog to notify that their article has been mentioned by you
- Pingback – See trackback.
- Permalink – A link to a specific article
- Tags – labeling / attaching keywords to collect similar posts
- Tag cloud – Displaying tags lists or keywords in a blog.
- Blogroll – list of links to other blogs in your sidebar. Also see blogrolling.com
- Sideblog – A smaller blog usually placed in the sidebar of a blog.
- Template – the blog presentation design
- BlogThis – a function allows a blogger to blog the entry they a reading
- Plugins – Small files that add improved functionality and new features. WordPress plugins can greatly improve your blog usage and interactivity
- Widgets – small apps that add extra functionality and advanced features to blogs
- Dashboard – When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.
- Archives – a collection of all your posts on one page. Can be categorized by month etc.
- Expandable post summaries – show a small teaser part of the post on the index page that link to the full post.
- Jump – the continuation of a the story on another page to preserve space on index page.
- FTP – short for file transfer protocol. Transferring file to and fro from your web host using FTP tools like Filezilla
- SFTP – this is the secure form of FTP
- Favicon – the small icon you see in the browser tab beside the page title
- Hyperlink – the url of the page to which you redirect when you click the link/text/image
WEB FEEDS
Terms used to explain various types of feeds generated by different blogging platforms.
- Web Feed – allows online users to subscribe to websites that change or add content regularly.
- RSS – 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
- XML – short for eXtensible Markup Language. a general-purpose markup language for syndication formats used on blogs.
- RDF – short for Resource Description Framework. A web content syndication format.
- Atom – another specific web feed format. Blogger feeds are usually of this type.
- OPML – short for Outline Processor Markup Language. It is an XML format for outlines. Easily import and export multiple blog subscriptions between different rss aggregators.
- Photofeed– a web feed with image enclosures.
BLOGGING SOFTWARE / CLIENTS
Enlists types of common blogging platforms available
- Blogger – a free blogging platform by Google.
- Blogspot – free Blogger hosting blog at name.blogspot.com. Allows custom domain names as well
- WordPress.org– Free. Easy to Upload, customize and upgrade. Requires own hosting and domain name.
- WordPress.com – A WordPress blog hosted free for you. Limited advertising options
- Tumblr – Possibly the easiest way to start a blog. Bought by Yahoo!
- Typepad – paid blogging tool by SixApart
- LiveJournal – free blogging tool by SixApart
- Movable Type – paid blogging tool by SixApart
TYPES OF BLOGS
Blogs come in different varieties based on usage
- Group blog– with multiple contributing bloggers.
- Event blog – focused on an event
- Kittyblogger – writing about cats.
- Celeblog – focused on a celebrity.
- Celebriblog – maintained by a celebrity.
- Clog Blog – written in Dutch and/or in Holland.
- CEOBlog – run by a chief executive officer.
- Plog – a project blog. Also for Amazon.com personalized weblogs
- Movlogs – mobile video blogs.
- Splog– a spam blog
- Tech blog – focused on a technical subject.
- Anonoblog – by an anonymous blogger
- Linguablog – about linguistics, translation etc.
- Metablog – a blog about blogging.
- Milblog – a military blog.
- Blawg – blogged by a lawyer / related to legal stuff
- Edu-blog – education-oriented blog.
- Progblog – A progressive blog.
- Shocklog – provokes discussion by posting shocking content
- Klog – used by company knowledge workers. by Kloggers
- Blogsite – A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources
- Dark Blog– A non-public blog
- Photocast– a photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.
- Vlog – video blog
BLOGGING HABITS
Blogging has incited some strange terms and habits
- Metablogging – writing articles about blogging
- Blogstipation – writer’s block for bloggers. Can’t think of what to blog about?
- Blogathy – I do not want to post today and I do not care about it
- Blogopotamus – A long long blog post
- Blogorrhea – unusually high output of articles
- Bleg – To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.
- Hitnosis – Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased
- GAD – Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your AdSense earnings.
- Blego – Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth
- Blog hopping – jumping from one blog to another
- Blogroach – A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content
- Blogoholic – addicted to blogging
- Blogorific = blogtastic – something which a blogger says is terrific
- Blogsit – maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave
- Blogvertising – Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.
- Blurker – a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.
- Blogathon – update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe collect sponsorships.
- Blogiversary – your blog birthday
- Blog Carnival – Links to other articles covering a specific topic.
- Multiblog – running multiple blogs
- Blog Tipping – Compliment 3 blogs on day 1 of every month.
- Blogger bash – a blogger party
- Commenter – someone who leaves remarks/comments
- Reciprocal Links – called link love. You link to my blog, I link to yours. To improve search engine rankings.
- Linkbaiting – a habit of writing good content with the sole purpose of getting it linked from multiple sites.
- Blogstorm – a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.
- Blogsnob – refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.
- Doppelblogger – plagiarizes the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.
- Blogophobia – Fear of blogs and blogging.
- Bloggerel – the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog
- Vlogging – posting video content primarily
- Guest Blogging – posting articles on other sites to get backlinks an readers
BLOGGER TYPES
Lists types of bloggers based on how and what they blog
- Problogger – a professional blogger
- Blognoscenti – especially knowledgeable bloggers
- Blogebrity – a famous blogger.
- Blogerati – the blogosphere intelligentsia.
- Commentariat – The community of those leaving comments.
- Dooced – lost a job because of blog entries. To Dooce.
- Blogther – a fellow blogger.
- A-List– the top bloggers who influence the blogosphere.
- Blogstar– blogger running a popular blog
OTHER BLOGGING TERMS
Many more terms to fit and use.
- Bloggies– Annual blogging awards.
- MSM – Mainstream Media, or old media like newspapers etc.
- BSM – Blogstream media. from most heavily trafficked blogs.
- Blog Day – 31 August. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting and tell them.
- Blaudience – your blog audience.
- Blargon – Also called Blogssary. Blogging slang and glossary. What I am telling you now.
- Blogiversary – your blog birthday
- Blogiverse – see blogosphere
- XFN – short for XHTML Friends Network. Is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
- Blogonomics – blogging conference on a Blog Cruise in 2006.
- EFF – short for Electronic Frontier Foundation. A nonprofit group working to protect blogger rights.
- Blog of Note – a recommended blog.
- Navbar – a navigation bar usually seen on top of Blogger blogspot hosted blogs.
- Blook – a book created from a blog.
- Hat Tip– acknowledgement of the source that tipped you the news.
- Spomments– Spam comments
- Blammer– Blog spammer
- SOB– acronym for Successful and Outstanding Blogger. From successful-blog.com
- Blogiday– you get fed up and take a holiday from blogging
BLOGGING TOOLS & SERVICES
So many blogging tools, clients, feed readers to enhance the blogging experience.
- Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, and Kinja, – are News Aggregators 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
- Pageflakes, Newsvine – Track multiple feeds on a single page by modules.
- Odeo, and Podnova – are Podcatchers, a form of aggregator used to automatically download podcasts and can sometimes transfer a portable media player. Like
- Feedburner – a professional feed management system
- Pingomatic, Pingoat – ping multiple blog tracking services.
- Feedblitz, Zokooda – Email subscriptions and newsletter tools.
- Technorati – a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere
- b5media, 9rules – examples of popular blogging networks. Collection of blogs and bloggers providing great content, with revenue sharing sometimes.
- K2, Blix – names of some popular WordPress themes.
- Blogexplosion, and Blogclicker– popular blog traffic generation/exchange services.
- Adsense, Adbrite, CJ, Chitika, Blogads, Clickbank, and Commission junction – are popular affiliate programs to generate money from your blogs.
- Sphere, Icerocket – blog search engines
- Live Bookmarks – a firefox web browser feature. Update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.
- Creative Commons – licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
- CoComment – Tracks your comments across different platforms and follows conversations
- WBloggar, Ecto, Qumanna – desktop blog publishing tools
- Mint, Mybloglog, Measuremap, Analytics – site traffic tracking tools.
- Haloscan– free trackback service
- YouTube, Rapidshare– puts video on your blog
- Flickr, Imageshack – photo sharing service. Host images on your blog
- Del.icio.us, furl, spurl – share social bookmarks.
- Blogburst – Syndicating your feed to top publishers.
- Bloggeropoly – professional blogger recruiting agency
- Blogger code – a way to describe different types of bloggers.
- Bloggoggle – Directory of Blogging Professionals
- BlogHer – where the women bloggers are. At Blogher.org
BLOG TRAFFIC SURGES
When your site traffic explodes due to blogging …
- Digged – link posted on digg.com driving huge traffic to your blog
- Slashdotted – link posted on slashdot.org driving huge traffic to your blog
- Instalanche – link posted on instapundit.com driving huge traffic to your blog
- Farked – link posted on fark.com driving huge traffic to your blog
- Boing Boinged – link posted on boingboing.net driving huge traffic to your blog
MISCELLANEOUS BLOGGING TERMS
For those other times…
- Ajax – acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. creates interactive web applications.
- Greasemonkey – a firefox web browser extension that can alter the functionality of any website using specific scripts.
- Wiki – a collaborative on-line software that allows readers to add and edit content.
- SEO – search engine optimization. To improve your search engine rankings.
- PageRank – Google’s measure of the importance of a page based on links. Google still uses link signals but stopped showing public PageRank scores in 2016.
- CMS – short for the Content management system. software used to publish and manage websites.
This post is constantly updated. Help me develop this blogging resource to include all popular blogging terms and create a useful blogging glossary. I repeat that this is NOT a substitute for dictionary meaning or a strict definition of these terms, but a simple layman’s approach to understanding what they mean. Please feel free to propose a better meaning in the comments.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between a blog post and a page?
Posts are dated entries that appear in your blog feed and archives. Pages are timeless, like About or Contact, and don’t appear in the feed.
What does CMS mean in blogging?
A content management system, software like WordPress that lets you write, edit and publish posts without coding.
What is a permalink?
The permanent URL of a blog post. Choose a clear structure once and avoid changing it; see our guide on changing WordPress permalinks.
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I am a blogochondriac: a person who is constantly editing their blogs!!!
At this time it sounds like BlogEngine is the best blogging platform
out there right now. (from what I’ve read) Is
that what you are using on your blog?
Thank You for this list. I’m an amateur blogger who is self taught and still learning. This post, “the giant blogging terms glossary” is a huge help! Thank you again
Hey Thanks for sharing this nice list of blogging lingo’s. I had never heard the worlds like “Blook”, “GAD” etc. I have bookmarked the page for future reference.
remind me to back to the roots
“A-List- the top bloggers who influence the blogosphere.”
Sorry, I can’t see how this specifically refers to bloggers, not just Celebrities. Maybe it refers to Celebrity Bloggers?
Great List, You can add more , seperate them via genre
easy to find out
Blog niche – specialized target blog characterized by a particular interest, topic or subject.
Interesting dictionary… some words are quite new to me. Keep up “blogging
great post. I am sure it has taken lot of your time to compile something like this. Must read for every blogger.
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!’wOw’! Thank you very too much…
Wonderful collection which i haven’t heard of it ever before. It will be more helpful to everyone to know completely about the blogging. It makes us more clear with the blogging terms.
Thx for this useful sharing. Keep on sharing good things like this always.
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Wow, so much terminology, most of them I just see it here. It’s nice to be educated.
A Valuabe resource for all us serious bloggers
A blog 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.
Good dictionary for bloggers. I particularly liked ‘types of blog’ section very much.
Newbie Question: What is the difference in a scripted and an unscripted blog? What are those terms referring to in reference to a blog?
It boggles the mind that such language has developed all by itself in such a short time. The internet and other technology has changed our whole language not just with abbreviations and jargon but even by creating new verbs that we use in everyday life!
Thanks for the info – I wonder how many sites/companys use this in their practice?
yeah i find this great too and also very useful. i think the meaning blog is not really claryfied…
You just might want to add “rtl” what do you think? You think you can tell us what that means? It would really help everybody new to blogging…since Word Press is throwing around terms like everybody knows what the hell their talking about. WordPress needs to add a glossary of terms for new bloggers if their really interested in attracting new bloggers like me. I Googled rtl and got 100 different answers.
Thanks to excellent glosary! In chasnosti finally realized that what Trackback
This post and the comments are blogilicious (did anyone say that already?)
This article is really interesting.
Thanks for all the comments, they are more valuable to me than all the traffic.
Always good to find another lexiblographer out here.
I found your list of blogging tools and services particularly excellent.
Nice effort! This is definitely a one stop reference to all things blogging.
Nice glossary. You know that adding one of these to your site is great for optimization.
Thought this may amuse wrote it meself
Bloggability – Measurement of any given event or occurrence and its likely hood of appearing in Blogg form
Bloggademic – Heinously flowery, difficult to grasp, niche market ramblings from Bloggers with big brains and too much time on their hands
Bloggality – A recognisable form and content across a number of entries, ” I like his bloggality, don’t you?”
Blogganoia – That unnerving feeling that someone somewhere is Blogging about you
Bloggasm – Tense, exciting Blogg that reaches a crescendo then fades away messily and turns it’s back on you
Bloggazoids – Bloggers of great intellectual capacity but little empathy leading to cases of Blogglag
Bloggbubbo – Any section of Blogg that is cut and paste into any other virtual space by an unknown or known other
Bloggcamp – Any given Blogg entry that has more than its fair share of ! or contains oooooohhhh or ahhhhhhh with far too many a’s or o’s.
Bloggcentric – Any entry that Bloggs about a previous Blogg
Bloggciousness – Knowing you haven’t Blogged for a while and berating yourself for it, “To be in a state of Bloggciousness”
Bloggdeath – The termination of any given Blogg for whatever reason
Bloggderful – Warm glow from a particular good Blogging experience
Bloggdrag – Interminable ongoing Blogg (that may or may not be Bloggular) that always holds out promise for tomorrows entry but never quite delivers
Bloggease – Ability to use these words with others who understand them
Bloggecules – Individual snippets of Blogg that inhabit cyberspace and have never been read by anyone anywhere
Bloggeen – Ramblings of adolescents, often pathetic, usually Blogideous and with no Bloggality. Blogger does not understand Bloggability and is far from a Bloggademic. Bloggsturbation is a given with multiple Bloggasms as a result
Bloggideous – Garish backgrounds, unwanted sounds and other clutter make a Blogg unreadable. “This Blogg is bloggideous”
Bloggily – Incestuous back patting by a group of four or less Bloggers who’s Bloggs are all crap and who also have no friends.
Bloggiotics – The art of interpreting Blogg entries with your own hidden agenda be it conscious or unconscious.
Bloggish – Any sentence with three or more of the words on this list as part of its structure either spoken or written
Bloggites – Any given group of Bloggers in a real location who are aware that they all Blogg but don’t particularly like each other
Bloggittus – The condition that causes you to pester other people to Blogg
Blogglag – The gradual loss of readers through too many Bloggonites written by Bloggazoids who should have kept it Bloggsy
Blogglins – Any given group of Bloggers in a real location who are aware that they all Blogg and who get on famously
Bloggme – to limit the number of words you can use in any given Blogg, the layout is specifically restrained and colour choices limited, akin to the Dogme manifest of filmmaking this activity is supposed to promote creativity and imagination
Bloggnog – Bloggers with a huge ego and no sense of perspective who don’t even get the hint when no one reads
Bloggnoxious – any activity by an individual/organisation/the state designed to curtail Blogging
Bloggodile – A nasty comment (that has real teeth in a slanderous or liable way) directed at anyone. May cause Blognoxiousness to occur.
Bloggoff – Their general response to your incessant mutterings that they should Blogg
Bloggoidance – to not read a Blogg with the deliberate intent of offending someone who expects you to do so
Bloggoids – Any given group of Bloggers in a real location who are unaware that they all Blogg
Bloggonite – a particular tough Blogg entry that no matter how much you try you cant understand a bloody word (See Bloggademic)
Bloggority – Bloggers who aren’t read for the simple reason no one likes him or her
Bloggpiracy – To pass anothers Blogg entry off as your own through the use of Bloggbubbos
Bloggportant – A vital and very important Blogg that can save lives from any war zone or perhaps Slough
Bloggreatric – Bloggers of pensionable age
Bloggsection – The small amount of scrolling that everyone must do to read the last few lines of an entry.
Bloggsplit – An argument between two or more Bloggers
Bloggsprog – A website born from a Blogg that has a small but cultish following
Bloggster – A reader who reads many Bloggs, never comments and has no Bloggs himself
Bloggstump – an unfinished entry that only last minutes as being unfinished, because the Blogger was distracted. In this fleeting time at least one other has viewed the entry and entirely misinterpreted the meaning. (See Bloggiotics) Bloggstumps are rare
Bloggsturbation – Far too much Bloggcentric behaviour
Bloggswift – Short entry that is designed to avoid a Bloggvoid and give the false impression of attaining Bloggular status
Bloggswot – To over analyse any given entry
Bloggsy – Simply written, easily understand much appreciated brain fart candy from any given Blogger
Bloggtroversial – Any passion inflaming Blogg that upsets at least three people
Bloggular -7 days continuous Blogging with a common thread is said to be Bloggular.
Bloggularity – Knowing the address of any given Blogg off by heart
Bloggulation – To cut off a Bloggers oxygen by not responding to any post or comment he makes is to carry out the act of Bloggulation. Also know as being sent to Bloggoventry
Bloggvestite – A mans Blogg thats too pretty or a womans Blogg that is too butch
Bloggvoid – any single Blogg period of 24 hrs with no entry at all
Bloggxtra – A piece of Blogg so good it requires e-mails to be sent to remind all those friends who promised to keep up with yer Blogg to please do so
Blogplop – Any word in any Blogg that is misspelled but makes another word which cause the whole Blogg to be laughable, these often become Bloggbubbos
Blogsecution – Anonymous and nasty comments from a Blogtwit
Blogtwit – Stupid individuals who judge Bloggers purely on what they say and never get to know them before launching a text assault, most usually anonymous
Blogwobbler – Tirade written when drunk or pissed that is later regretted and deleted by the Blogger who is praying it hasn’t become a Bloggbubbo
This page must be bookmarked by novice bloggers. I particularly liked the “Blog Components” section. It gives the proper understanding of the blog and post structure.
Nice piece. Sweeeettt. Good reference, you never know sth we might get lost in this ‘blogstorm’…
Blog niche – specialized target blog characterized by a particular interest, topic or subject.
“Captcha” – didn’t know. Funny. thanks.
Great list. I have one for your list.
Flog- A portmanteau of “fake” and “blog”. A blog that’s ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.
Thanks a lot for taking some time and making a list about blog terminology. Very enlighting. Man, there are a lot of things about blog and people can even write books about blogging.
Interesting dictionary… some words are quite new to me. Keep up “blogging” :)
thank you for your valuable time by putting this on!!
it help me become more confident to blog~
I got one, I’m fairly new… what does h/t mean? Example h/t to so and so for a link?
Huge Thanks? Hat Tip?
just wondering…
Linking to this…
Looked for CTR here but couldn’t find it. What is it?
Thanks
Don’t forget ‘clog’ as slang for a Corporate Blog!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clog
Great Job! Alphabetizing would be fantastic.
Just recently a reader asked me to publish a list of blogging terms. Well, by coincidence Quick Online Tips has published “The Giant Blogging Terms Glossary” of blogging abbreviations, acronyms and terms. So rather than reinvent the wheel, why not just click over there and check it out yourself.
It would be nice to have this with some kind of interface for WordPress plugin (and other systems too), for automatic linking to.
tha’s post is very intersting, But what about the guy who read only blogs, What’s is this disease called?
Blogstar? Blogloser? Blogni? Bluggle?
The list is so incomplete!!
The term ‘mongrel ‘has been used to describe a comment which has not been published (rejected) because it is ill formed, ugly, not not relevant or plain stupid.
I thank all the readers for their kind comments and suggestions. I have fixed the errors you have pointed out and added the new terms suggested by you. Thanks for taking the time to proofread this article.
Help make this a comprehensive blogging resource. Keep the comments comming!
This list would be better if you used semantic markup:
You should also mention photocast and photofeed
I would add the blogger type: BLOGSTAR: like, you know, Dooce or Matt, or dandyna and Gianluca Neri in Italy :)
It would be nice if you list the terms in alphabetical order. I’d like to add another term to the blog lingo – deadblog, which means just that – a blog which has not been updated for ages. Here’s a few more blog terms I coined:
bloghead (from blockhead) – a meaningless blog raving and ranting about no specific topic/subject in particular
blogsome – an awesome blog that is highly addictive and makes you want to read it everyday
Great page!
I’ve written a blog glossary – or lexicon, if you will – that parallels this one on many levels. I took some time to make the definitions reasonably definitive, to match the rest of the content on WhatIs.com.
Always good to find another lexiblographer out here.
I found your list of blogging tools and services particularly excellent.
An online dated “dairy”?
I assume you meant “diary”.
:)
This is totally self serving, but a good addition to your Blogging Software / Clients list is BlogCheese, a free and complete video blogging system. No uploads, downlods or installation required. It’s really perfect for webcam-based video blogging. See examples on the site.
I’ve been trying to figure out what “the jump” is for quite a while now (as in “pictures after the jump”), but haven’t had any luck. Any insight on this term would be nice.
not to be pointy-headed, but it is a glossary, “photobloging” should be spelled “photoblogging” or better, “photo blogging,” with two g’s.
spomments = spam comments
Umm… you should probably add post or entry as the individual units that make up a blog. Help educate the MySpace crowd that says: “I wrote a new blog today!” when they really mean to say that they wrote/posted/published a new entry.
The passive form of Digg is Dugg, I think.
doppleblogger = a content scraping blogger (goes with doppleblog)
And I always wanted to know what ‘stub’ refers to.
blammer = blog spammer
A blogging acronym we invented for barcamp capetown: tyfyc, “Thank You For Your Comment”
Some good effort.
When you say Blogoholic – addicted to blogging you mean addicted to reading blogs or writing blogs or both ?
Big thanks. I have linked this.
“Blog” is short for “web log”–not “Web blog”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog