A live online conversation where, for example, attendees of an event talk to each other and discuss what's going on. E.g, "this speaker is a nutter", "I wonder where she bought those shoes."
Stick a wiki and a blog in a blender. Hit 'Start.' Voila. A bliki: a blog that can be edited wiki-style by its readers or an approved group of collaborators. Interesting tool; silly name.
Blogs (short for 'web logs'), have been around since the early 90s. The term was coined in '99 and by 2004 it was word of the year (Webster). A blog is an online journal or diary of sorts updated by a blogger. Entries or posts are usually filtered by date or subject.
This is when a huge number of blog entries suddenly appear around a particular event or topic. John Sargeant's woefully endearing performance on Strictly Come Dancing caused a 'blog storm' that dwarfed the activity around 9/11. Blog storms now regularly force stories into mainstream media.
The author of a blog. One of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, Blogger.com, was released in 2003, and is credited with helping popularize the format.
Currently the most popular news aggregator which browses blogs and podcasts, and delivers a summary of the information to the Bloglines website. Started by Mark Fletcher in 2003, Bloglines was sold to Ask.com in 2005.
The name for the collective community of blogs and bloggers.
A list of links to other 'interesting' blogs and websites normally situated at the side of a blog.
A button on your browser tool bar to add any article to your own blog. Quick and easy.
A literary prize for the best books based on blogs. Entries have included the diaries of 'Girl with a One-Track Mind' and the confessions of a US lothario, 'I Hope They Sell Beer in Hell'.
An aggregator of message boards and forum discussions.
Save your fave site addresses by clicking the appropriate button or the 'add to favourites' button on your browser tool bar - it's del.ici.ous. ('In' joke. Sorry. Won't happen again.)
When text from a brochure gets plonked straight onto a website without revision, and with complete disregard to usability, keywords or search terms.
A blog written by a company to communicate with customers, partners and employees.
'Old-skool' phrase to describe the articles listed on a forum.
Often created by word of mouth and viral marketing, 'buzz' is the word-on-the-street, ear-to-the-ground, finger-on-the-pulse stuff going around. E.g "Have you digged the blogosphere buzz on the new iPhone? Some dude's gonna get totally Dooced for that buzz, man." God, give us strength.
Cringe-worthy name for tracking the number and nature of online conversations and coverage around you / your brand. Several tools are out there to give you a quantitative gauge of the amount of 'buzz' and how it can be 'monitored'.