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.
Dashboard: The administration area on your blog software that allows you to post, check traffic, upload files, manage comments, etc.
Date-Based Archives: The archives of a blog site, organized by time-stamp. Almost every blog will have some form of time-stamp and many archives are listed along the sidebar. Some list in weekly, but most on a month-by-month basis.
Delicious: A social bookmarking site and a property of Yahoo! Allows users to quickly store, organize (by tags) and share favorite web pages. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds of other users and share a page specifically with another user. (Mike’s Delicious page)
Digg: Digg is a place for people to discover, share and recommend content from anywhere on the web.
Digital Storytelling: A digital story is a nonfiction narrative, composed on a computer, often for publishing online or publishing to a
DVD. This can be done with any combination of images, video, narrative, music and text. (h/t – Ourmedia’s Social media glossary)
Domain Name: The identifying name of an internet site. The domain name of my site is "www.converstations.com"
Dooced: A term associated with someone getting fired for the content written in a blog post or web site (not for the act of writing, but for what was published). From the popular site, Dooced (by an author who once vented about her company — and got fired because of what was written).
If you’ve suggestions, additions or modifications, add ‘em in a comment. Together we’re smarter.
