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WHAT IS A NEWS BLOG |
A news blog is a general term for a blog that revolves, in some way, around news stories. General news blogs cover current events broadly,
but more commonly a news blog focuses on some aspect of daily events such as politics. newsreader: In a generic sense, newsreaders are programs that display news articles in original or summary form. In the context of blogging, a newsreader is a specialized site or desktop program that lists and displays syndication feeds chosen by the user. Most blogs offer their content outside the Web site by means of a feed, the most common format for which is RSS. Newsreaders are sometimes called RSS aggregators. old media: A somewhat (but not necessarily) disrespectful term, old media refers to newspapers, magazines, and other printed media that make up the MSM (mainstream media). More generally, an old medium is any genre of culture that has been supplanted, or will soon be supplanted, by a new format.
Partial entry: On a blog index page, partial entries can be used to save space. Readers can click through to an archived page that contains the full entry. In an RSS feed, a partial entry likewise saves space and encourages readers to click through to the site, where they can read the full entry. permalink: A blog entry’s permalink is the index page link to its permanent page in the blog. Putting the permalink below each blog entry on the index page makes it easy for visitors to copy the permalink’s URL and cite the entry in another blog. photoblogging: Photoblogging refers to posting a digital photo in a blog. Serious photobloggers operate blogs with no text entries — just pictures. Casual photoblogging produces a mix of written and photo entries and often includes photo displays in the sidebar. Photo albums are often attached to photoblogs. ping: When two Internet locations communicate with each other, they are said to ping each other. The word is especially used in the context of TrackBacks, which use pings to complete the two-way link. A podcast is simply a series of audio programs recorded in the MP3 file format and distributed in a blog and an RSS feed. Their name derives from the iPod, the most popular MP3 player, but they can be heard through any portable player and through any desktop audio program that plays MP3s.
There is nothing new about MP3 programs. Podcasts have become so popular due to their distribution mechanism that they are really more part of the RSS revolution than the blogging revolution. That said, it’s worth noting that the RSS revolution is dependent on the blog revolution. Anyway, podcasts and blogs are closely related. post: Both a verb and a noun, a blogger can actually post a post. As a verb, bloggers post entries. As a noun, bloggers put their posts in their blogs.
Reciprocal link: When two bloggers agree to add each other’s blogs to their blogrolls, the links are called reciprocal links. referral log: Part of a site’s traffic log, the referral log shows where a site’s visitors came from. The referral log, when available, is useful to bloggers who
want to know which sites are linking to them most effectively. If, for example, a blog’s traffic leaped upward, the referral log could show that an influential site linked to a blog entry, giving it an unusual amount of visibility and sending lots of traffic.
RSS: An acronym that stands for both Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary, RSS is a type of syndication feed. As a generic term, RSS represents
all feed formats. RSS aggregator: Another name for a newsreader. sidebar: Located on the left or right side of a blog’s index page (and some-
times replicated on every page in the blog), the sidebar can contain links to archived entries, a blogroll, photos, lists of many kinds, and other content that relates to and enhances the blog. spam: Generally, spam is advertising deposited inappropriately and unwantedly. In a blog, spam can be found in comments and TrackBacks. Spam isincreasingly a problem for bloggers, causing some popular blogs to remove their comment and TrackBack sections spamblog: A scourge of the blogosphere, spamblogs are generated automatically, contain no useful or hand-written content, contain mostly (or exclusively) links, and are intended to manipulate search results at major search engines. These engines rank Web sites partly by the number of incominglinks, so shady Web marketers set up spamblogs containing hundreds of links to their sites. In theory, the search engines count all those links and rank the target sites higher in search results. In fact, search engines are more sophisticated than that, and spamblogs are of questionable value.
splog: Another word for Spamblog. syndication: Syndication is a method of distributing blog entries beyond the blog site, primarily to newsreaders. Crucial to the syndication mechanism are RSS and Atom, two syndication formats. Both these formats create feeds,which are text-only displays of blog entries.