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Don’t know your podcasting from your vodcasting? Confused as to the meaning of search engine optimisation? And what exactly is a blog? Or blogging? Or the blogosphere? Here for the first time, in our fabulous Online PR and Social Media Glossary (phew), are our slightly tongue-in-cheek definitions for all the latest buzzwords doing the rounds. (And writing them kept the immediate future team amused for at least a whole afternoon!) Any definitions you want to add? Email us at info@immediatefuture.co.uk | |
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| Term | Definition |
| Blog swarm | A blog swarm or blog storm is when bloggers in the blogosphere write thousands of posts about a subject which then forces the story into the mainstream media. Never underestimate the power of the blogger. |
| Blogerati | Rich, famous, fashionable celebrities are known as the glitterati. Influential, knowledgeable and intelligent bloggers are known as the blogerati. They are rarely one of the same. |
| Blogger | A weblogger or blogger is someone who writes a blog. Blogger is also one of the oldest blogging services available and is owned by Google. What isn’t owned by Google? |
| Blogger bash | When bloggers get to party with each other in real life it’s called a blogger bash. Maybe great fun. Or may be very weird. |
| Bloglines | Bloglines is the most popular news aggregator which browses blogs and podcasts, and delivers a summary of the information to the Bloglines website. Bloglines was started by Mark Fletcher in 2003 and sold to Ask Jeeves in 2005 for a whole lotta dosh. |
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FolksonomyFolksonomy refers to people classifying their blogs, web pages and pictures with informal descriptions or tags. So on Flickr, the tags for a picture of freshly-cut grass might be green; spring; nature; hay fever; sniffles; headache. Folksonomy are also people who go to barn dances. More jargon-busting in our online PR glossary |