Glossary

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
PhotoblogA photoblog is a blog that consists of photos rather than text, and photoblogging is posting the photos on your photoblog. So when someone says have you seen the pictures of my holiday/ baby/wedding/cat you can reply ‘yes, I’ve seen them on your photoblog’. You can lie of course.
 
PingShort for Packet Internet Grouper a Ping is what alerts the original poster of a blog that someone has made a reference to that post in another blog when using TrackBack. A ping also notifies blog tracking software when the content of a blog has changed. Ping also refers to knicker elastic.
 
PingbackSee trackback
 
PloggerA political blogger is known as a plogger. Ploggers can be political commentators who write blogs. Or worse - politicians who write blogs. Guaranteed to be utterly cringeworthy.
 
Plug-insPlug-ins are small software modules that add multimedia functions to an application. Web browsers use plug-ins such as Flash to expand the type of formats they can see such as video, music or animation. Plug-ins are also what guys get when they’re going bald.
 


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