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Key Terms, Web 2.0

Blog: Short for //web log//, a type of web page that features entries that provide a commentary on a single subject or a particular genre.

Blog archive: A  list of posts to the blog organized by date.

Blog comments: Written commentaries left by readers pertaining to a certain blog post.

Blog directories: Listings of blog sites, usually organized by topic.

Blog posts: T  he text, images, and/or videos that provide information to blog readers. Posts contain a title and the date they were posted to the blog site and are listed in reverse chronological order.

Blog spam: Comments that are posted to a blog by automated programs to specifically promote a product or website.

Blogger: A person who creates and maintains a blog.

Blogosphere: The entire collection of all blogs on the web.

Blogroll: A list of hyperlinks to other blogs that the blog creator feels will be of interest to his or her readers.

CAPTCHA: A program that helps protect websites from having software programs, or bots, execute procedures on the sites.

Dot-com bust: A period of time between late 2000 through 2002 in which many dot-com companies with unworkable business ideas went out of business.

Dot-coms :  Companies that do most or all of their business on the Internet.

Gadget: A section of your blog that contains code that results in some type of functionality for your blog.

Header: Section of a blog that contains the title of your blog and can contain a subtitle in certain templates.

Labels: Topics or categories that are created by you to describe your blog posts.

Page views: The number of times a web page is loaded in a browser.

Unique visitors: The number of different people that visit a web site within a specific time period.

Venture capitalists: Investors who specialize in funding new, high-growth ventures in exchange for shares of stock in a company.

Web 2.0 :  An expression used to describe the changes that have taken place in the usage and applications available on the Internet (specifically the World Wide Web) over the past five to seven years.