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Blog Terms Part1
October 7th, 2008 by Frank
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The popularity of blogging has contributed to the development of specialized blogging vocabulary which only bloggers most often than not, purely understands. Here are some of the terms that have been compiled to help you understand few words and common phrases that are widely used on the blogging community.
Autocasting is an automated form of podcasting. It allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from source like an RSS feed.
Audioblog is a blog post that is made out of voice recordings sent through mobile phones. Sometimes it has some messages text added to it.
Blog Carnival is blog article that contains links to other articles that covers a specific topic. These are commonly hosted by a list of frequent contributors to the carnival.
Blog client is a software that posts and edits blogs from operating system without using the web browser.
Blogger is a person who runs a blog. It may refer to blogger.com also which is a very popular blog hosting web site.
Bloggernacle are blogs written for the Mormons. It refers to faithful Mormon bloggers.
Bloggies is the most popular blog awards.
Blogroll is a list of blogs, which you can usually see in the sidebar of a blog. it lists recommended sites of other blogs.
Blogosphere refers to the entire blogging community.