Here’s a post to help some of the new users who have started their blogging career. The expert bloggers would find it rudimentary but should be a good read for our new users and should help in generating more interest. Also I will request our Expert users to share their expertise through comments and enlighten new users.

BLOG

Short for Weblog. A website that contains

written material, links or photos being

posted all the time, usually by one individual,

on a personal basis.

BLOGGER

Person who runs a blog.

BLOGROLL

List of external links appearing on a blog,

often links to other blogs and usually in a

column on the homepage. Often amounts

to a �sub-community� of bloggers who are

friends.

POST

An item posted on a blog. Can be a message

or news, or just a photo or a link. Usually

a short item, including external links, that

visitors can comment on.

TRACKBACK

A way that websites can communicate

automatically by alerting each other that an

item posted on a blog refers to a previous

item.

COMMENT SPAM

Like e-mail spam. Robot �spambots� flood

a blog with advertising in the form of bogus

comments. A serious problem that requires

bloggers and blog platforms to have tools

to exclude some users or ban some

addresses in comments

PERMALINK

Contraction of �permanent link.� Web

address of each item posted on a blog. A

handy way of permanently bookmarking a

post, even after it has been archived by the

blog it originated from..

RSS (REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION)

A way of handling the latest items posted

on a website, especially suited for blogs

because it alerts users whenever their

favourite blogs are updated. It can also

�syndicate� content by allowing other

websites (simply and automatically) to

reproduce all or part of a site�s content.

Spreading fast, especially on media websites.

DASHBOARD

Most blogs have a �dashboard,� where you

can see at a glance everything happening

on the blog, including the latest posts,

comments and trackbacks. You can access

all the blog�s features from here and change

how it looks, increase bandwidth, edit

old posts and manage your users and their

permissions, such as their right to post

comments.

RSS FEED

The file containing a blog�s latest posts. It is

read by an RSS aggregator/reader and

shows at once when a blog has been updated.

Some of the many sites that explain the intricacies of blogging :

Civiblog Central Resources Blog:

http://central.civiblog.org/blog/BloggingResources

How to blog:

http://blogging.typepad.com/how_to_blog

The blogosphere:

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere

The Weblog Workshop:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu:8080/globalvoices/wiki/index.php/WeblogWorkshop

Blogging 101:

http://www.unc.edu/%7Ezuiker/blogging101/index.html