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There are several terms that individuals and businesses need to know and understand when they create and write blog posts, receive updates and read other blogs. Most of the blog language is not ‘common sense’ terms so having a list of terms and their definitions is a good idea, especially when one is first starting out in the blogosphere.

• Atom – a ‘feed’ for which blog updates are delivered to an individual as soon as they are published.
• Blawg – this is a law blog used by lawyers and attorneys to blog about everything from the jury selection process to the latest debate in where to hold the 9/11 trails.
• Blog client – is a software package that enables a blogger to manage, edit, spell-check and perform a number of other related activities to their blog without opening a web browser, they do all this from a specific operating system.
• BlogDay – takes place every August 31 in which bloggers from around the world are charged with posting a suggestion for five new blogs on their blog in order to emphasize other blogs that vary from their own in terms of viewpoint, culture, affiliation, design or political view.
• Blogger – the person who runs the blog, writes the blog posts (normally) and updates blog posts in addition to answering questions received in the ‘leave a comment’ section.
• Bloggies – very popular blog award, one of many.
• Blogosphere – the blogging community or all the blogs put together.
• The BOBs – the largest of several international blog awards.
• Collaborative or group blog – a single focused blog or political ‘stripe’ blog in which there are many different users able to post content.
• Flog – a blending of the words ‘fake’ and ‘blog’ which is also a blog that is ghostwritten by someone else, sometimes a ‘hired pen’ or someone from the marketing department.
• Feeds – there are several different and equally sufficient feeds, however, the most popular one and the one used most often to update people about the change in content of their favorite blog is RSS – Really Simple Syndication. This is an XML-based language for circulation of Web substance.
• J-blog – this is either a blog containing Jewish themes or a journalist’s blog.
• Miliblog – a blog specifically designed and operated for a branch of the military – Army, Air Force, Marines or Navy.
• Permalink – this is a unique URL that is typically given to a blog post that is archived.
• Phlog – a photo blog with the mixture of the words photo and blog for the title that could also be referred to as a Photoblog.
• Pingback – found in the TrackBack software which alerts the original poster of a blog post when someone writes a comment about the original blog post.
• Post – an entry or written text that makes up the blog and published on the Internet for all to see.
• RSS – stands for Really Simple Syndication which is part of a family of Web formats used when publishing updates from a blog, podcasts, or news headlines.
• Search engine friendly URLs – SEF URLs is when a blogger take a URL and shortens it to make more sense in addition to making more relevant to the blog, using the blogs main topic or keyword in the URL would be making it search engine friendly.
• Vlog – a video blog containing videos. A vlogger would be someone who posts videos of themselves doing something relevant to the blogs theme up on the blog.
• Weblog – the original term used for ‘blog’