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Expression Engine

proprietary. A blog publishing software package. Expression Engine is a powerful content management system and is particularly suitable for ‘high end’ group blogs that are full featured and expect...

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Radio Userland

proprietary. A blog publishing software package. Radio Userland is more popular with tech bloggers. radio.userland.com

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Plog

1. noun & verb. A project blog. A blog set up to chronicle a particular (business) project. 2. noun. On-line bookseller Amazon.com has experimented with offering its customers ‘personalised...

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Plogging

1. verb. Short for presidential blogging (as in the president or CXO of a company) which bypasses the entire PR apparatus, as well as the traditionally blah forms of published speech by CXOs. Think of...

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Blogiversary

noun. The ‘birthday’ of the establishment of a blog.

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MSM

acronym. Mainstream media

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Podcasting

verb. To record (usually spoken narrative) audio files (usually in MP3 format) and make them available on-line so that they can be downloaded and listened to rather like an ‘on-demand’ radio show....

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Landmineware

noun. Software or websites that has options checked default-yes when you sign up that, if you are not paying close attention, will do things you have ‘consented’ to that you probably would rather not...

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Moonbat

noun. See ‘Barking Moonbat’.

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Splog

noun. Spam blog. A blog created purely as a payload target for spam. The spam itself is delivered via trackbacks, comment spamming or e-mail and the ‘splog’ is where you end up if you click the spam...

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Captcha

acronym/trademark. An acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. A ‘Captcha’ is form of a Turing Test (qv) used to differentiate humans from computers...

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Blogopotamus

noun. A very long blog article Usage: “Paul Marks has done another Blogapotamus on Samizdata.net”

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