and family. Multiblog A blog constructed as a conversation between more than two people. P Permalink Permanent link. The unique URL of a single post. Use this when you want to link to a post somewhere. Phlog Type of blog utilising the Gopher protocol instead of HTTP A Photoblog. A portmanteau of "photo" and "blog". Photoblog A blog mostly containing photos, posted constantly and chronologically. Pingback The alert in the TrackBack system that notifies the original poster of a blog post when someone else writes an entry concerning the original post. Podcasting Contraction of “iPod” and “broadcasting” (but not for iPods only). Posting audio and video material on a blog and its RSS feed, for digital players. Post or blog Post A blog post is a piece of writings in the form of an article that's published on a blog by a blogger. Post Slug For blogs with common language URLs, the post slug is the portion of the URL that represents the post, such as "all-about-my-holiday" in www.example.com/all-about-my-holiday R RSS Really Simple Syndication is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, or podcasts. RSS aggregator Software or online service allowing a blogger to read an RSS feed, especially the latest posts on their favorite blogs. Also called a reader or feedreader. RSS feed The file containing a blog’s latest posts. It is read by an RSS aggregator/reader and shows at once when a blog has been updated. It may contain only the title of the post, the title plus the first few lines of a post, or the entire post. S Search engine friendly URLs or, for short, SEF URLs, implemented via URL mapping. Spam blog A blog that is composed of spam. A Spam blog or "any blog whose creator doesn't add any written value." Slashdot effect The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or another website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also Digg, Metafilter, Boing Boing, Instapundit and others) sending huge amounts of temporary traffic that often slow down the server. Soldierblog see Milblog Subscribe The term used when a blogs feed is added to a feed reader like Bloglines or Google. Some blogging platforms have internal subscriptions, this allows readers to receive a notification when there are new posts in a blog. A subscriber is a person who is willing to