Glossary of Blogging and Social Media Terms – A

By on December 13, 2007 in Blogging, Social Media with 4 Comments

This is part of a series of posts (and a project-in-progress), compiled as a glossary of terms and phrases used in blogging and social media, that will continually be added to and modified.

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Adsense: Google’s pay-per-click, context-relevant program available to blog and web publishers as a way to create revenue.

Adwords: The advertiser program that populates the Adsense program. The advertiser pays Google on a per click basis.

Aggregator: A web-based tool or desktop application that collects syndicated content.

AJAX: An acronym (Asynchronous Java Script and XML) representing a way to create real-time Web applications.

Akismet: Comment spam filter popular with WordPress blogs.

Anonoblog: A blog site authored by a person or persons who don’t publish their name.

API: An acronym (Application Programming Interface) representing a computer system or application allowing for requests to be made of it by other programs and allows for data to be exchanged. Think "programmable web"

Archives: Most often an index page, often organizing posts or entries by either category or date.

AstroTurfing: A fake grass roots push to generate buzz or interest in a product, service, or idea. Often this movement is motivated by a fee or gift to the writer of a post or comment or may be written under a phony pseudonym.

Atom: A popular feed format used for syndicating content.

Avatar: A graphical image or likeness that replaces a photo of the author of the content on a blog.

If you’ve suggestions, additions or modifications, add ‘em in a comment. Together we’re smarter.

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  • http://www.freshpeel.com Chris Wilson

    Awesome idea Mike.
    One edit I might I make to the definition of AJAX would be to include something about it working without refreshing the browser. Some people may not understand exactly what you mean by “real-time.”
    I look forward to seeing what else you come up with.

  • http://www.ychange.com Small Business Marketing

    Now you have my undivided attention for at least 25 more posts. Very clever.
    Thanks for the information.

  • http://www.personalbrandawards.com Dan Schawbel

    Do we get the entire list after the last post?

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    >Chris, excellent addition. I’ll add that.
    >SMB:-) we’ll probably combine some of the letters (i.e., I,J,K) into a single post.
    >Dan – Nice catch, and as usual – you’re ahead of the game. I create the page-in-progress and added a link in this post (and in the top nav).