MediaJoltz

So how did it go? Did you do the assignment I gave on Friday? What did you find? So what is a blog?

-Blog- found from Wikipedia: A blog is a website where someone publishes entries on topics of interest. The topics vary as there are more than 70 million blogs out there being tracked by technorati.

Where did the term blog come from? A blog is a short term for web log. Basically an online journal or log of life, thoughts, business and ideas. There were a lot of stuff that could be the “beginning of blogs” such as websites with a “whats new page” but today blogging has become more mainstream and right now carries the controversial question: “Can bloggers be considered journalists?”

Terms to know:
Blog- we defined

Blogosphere-the connected community of all blogs together. The Blogoshpere can be defined into smaller niches such as a group of blogs on one topic-business or marketing

Blogger (the company and the term itself) a free website that allows the creation and maintenance of a blog. The term blogger is also a description of one who blogs.

Column- a column on a blog defines the space on the website. In my website the place where I post is one column, the place where I list my blogroll and podcast list is another column, I have a two column blog. Here is an example of a 3 column blog: http://www.davidlaplante.com/
You can find a one column blog template here: http://www.geckoandfly.com/2006/04/27/one-column-blogspot-template/

Tags-what the post is about. It can also be described as a Category-the pre determined topic the post falls under and is grouped with all other posts on that topic

MetaTags-these are used in the code of your blog for your pages that help with Search Engine Optimization

Trackbacks-a trackback is when someone writes on their blog about the post you have written. This is done by clicking on the link of the other person’s actual post and including the link in your post.

Pings-a ping is an alert sent to an author of a post letting them know that their post is being referred to elsewhere.

Permalink-this is the URL of an actual post. Instead of linking to www.mediajoltz.com when you like a post, you click on the title of the post and it takes you to a page with only that post on it. The URL of this page is a permalink.

Post-the body of a text blog.

Blogroll-list of blogs one enjoys or recommends, usually found on the side column of a blog

URL-uniform resource locator, or the address of a website

Domain Name-what is your website called? Mine is mediajoltz

Hosting-when you are writing and putting pictures and video on your website, it takes up space-or storage. Someone has to handle all that space, or host it.

Links- a hyperlink in your post to a reference that supports or further explains your topic

Linking-you can do this with other blogs by referring to them in a post and attaching a hyper link to the word in your post.

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