Bedienungsanleitung
Glossary
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Podcasting /Podcast /Podcaster
Podcasting is a combination of the terms iPod (the famous Apple MP3 player) and broadcasting. Podcasting consists of posting audio material (eg: interviews, read articles, book extracts...) instead of texts or pictures. Podcasts can be ... -
Blogging/To blog/I blog/you blog/they blog
Initially the terms meant "to post content to a blog". But blogging is not just adding content to one's blog. It is much more than that. A blogger blogs whenever he posts an article, updates his blog, answers to comments posted by visitors or ... -
Trackback / trackback link
The trackback is a process which is not easily understood by internauts and bloggers. Creating a trackback is the system of having two different articles on the same topic and displayed on two different blogs cross-reference. Each article ... -
Blog software / Blog script
Refers to the application used to manage a blog. For instance, de.over-blog.com is not a company name but the name of a software developed by JFG Networks. -
Private blog / restricted-access blog / secure blog
Terms : private blog, private blogs, password protected blog, restricted-access blog, secure blog, family blog... A secure blog is a blog that is password-protected. Bloggers who only wish to share information with people they know choose to ... -
Blog public
Contrary to a private blog, a public blog is accessible from any computer connected to the Internet without. Blogs you creates on de.over-blog.com are public blogs by default. -
Sexy blog / erotic blog
A sex blog or erotic blog refers to a blog containing adult material and dealing with sex, erotism or pornography. On de.over-blog.com, the reader is clearly informed whenever he visits a blog containing adult material. -
Web site hosting / Web site hoster
Terms: Web hosting, Web site hosting, Web page hosting, Internet hosting, Web hoster, Web site hoster, Web page hoster, hosting provider, to host Internet is not an intangible notion. In fact, every Web site, blog forum, document or picture ... -
Moblog / Mobbloging
Most of the content available on blogs has been published and put online from a computer. However, bloggers can also access their blogs from a mobile phone. This is called mobloging (mobile blogging). This feature is not available on all blog ... -
What is an aggregator / news feed reader / RSS ATOM feed aggregation?
An aggregator is a software, software application or service accessible on the web that automatically collects updated publications from a number of predefined web sites. An aggregator connects to these sites on a regular basis and collects all ... -
RSS syndication feed / ATOM syndication fedd / RSS feed / Atom feed
It refers to different types of feed which allow the syndication of your blog. There are different feed aggregators and different types of feed as well, the most common being the RSS feed. -
Blogosphere
The term blogosphere refers to the network constiting of bloggers and their blogs. This notion is a bit elitist since it often goes with the notion of "influential blogger". Being a member of the blogosphere means that you have a substantial ... -
What is an IP address?
IP stands for Internet Protocol. Every computer connected to the Internet is identified by a series of numbers named "IP address". Generally, an IP address can’t change. Only your Internet service provider can identify you through your IP ... -
What is website/blog referencing/indexing?
Referencing/indexing a website/blog consists in augmenting the potential sources linking to the website/blog. The referencing of your blog is determined by the number of links referring to your blog and their quality (links from popular sites). ... -
What is web site/blog hosting?
A website is a collection of files. In order to be accessible by everyone at anytime, these files need to be stored on a computer connected to the Internet on a permanent basis. This computer is called a server. The more a website attracts ... -
What is a post / entry?
A blog is a website made up of articles. These articles are called posts or entries. -
Weblog / news page / filter Weblog
These are other words used to designate a "blog" which is the most common term. They are mainly used in the media or official websites. -
Website audience monitoring / hit counter
Terms: hit counter, visit counter, access counter, Web counter, Website metering, Web metering, Web audience monitoring, Web audience measurement, Web tracking, statistics, daily page views, monthly page views One can get many data regarding ... -
What is a Ping / ping Technorati
To ping consists in sending a small information to a website or a server. When speaking of blogs, especially of Technorati (major website listing blogs and the posts they contain), this means informing the website that new content has been ... -
Blogroll / List of blogs
Terms: Blog roll, blogroll, list of links, list of blogs Most of blogs display a list of links to other blogs. This list is called a blogroll. There are widgets which allow bloggers to get a random blogroll. The list displays links to blogs ...