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1. noun. A ping is a system administrator tool that is an automated packet of information (64 bytes) sent through a network to another to establish the status of a target system. 2. verb. To ping another site is to send a small automated packet of data to actuate some expected function, such as a Trackback (qv). PING is an acronym for ‘Packet INternet Grouper’ June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
 1. noun. A system by which a ping (qv) is sent to another trackback-aware website (usually another blog) to notify that site that a link to them has been made (usually within an article being posted). The objective is to notify the subject of an article that they have been mentioned in another article elsewhere. 2. verb. To follow a trackback ping from the target weblog to the source weblog. June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
noun. XML is a web language used for (amongst other things) syndication formats used on blogs. Acronym for eXtensible Markup Language June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
noun. A ‘Progressive Weblog’. A blog expressing various left wing political views. (coined by Madeleine Begun) June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
noun. A series of remarks posted by people in a public comment section of a blog that follow a conversational and topic related sequence. Whilst used on blogs to describe related comments under a single blog article, this term is more specifically and accurately associated with on-line forums, many of which use a ‘threaded’ format that indents related digressions from the main ‘conversation’ in a branching manner, making it more clear to which previous comment a person it replying. Although some blog-forum hybrids also use this ‘threaded’ format within their public comments section, the term is more commonly associated with forums rather than blogs. usage: “A blog article by Mike over on Cold Fury has sparked off an interesting thread with people arguing about the merits of private firearms ownership” June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
verb. To ‘flame’ someone is to make a hostile intemperate remark, usually of a personal nature. Also see: Flame War Usage: “Andrew has seriously flamed Brian over his views on abortion again” June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
noun. A hostile exchange of views via the Internet characterised by highly intemperate language. (This term is by no means exclusive to blogs and is found in wide use throughout the Internet) June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed
Due to a DNS/IP cock up, we have been off the air for a while… a shout goes out to the support staff at Hosting Matters for solving the problem with lightning speed when I actually told them what they needed to know. Hosting Matters are simply the best, so give them your spondulies and host your site with them! They rock June 5th, 2003 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
… and that includes making music, creating pictures, writing verse, shooting films and producing computer games that annoy the crap out of other people. An attempt by the usual ‘guardians of morality’ to regulate the nature of computer games in a way that would never be tolerated for the written word has been defeated in a US court.
Score one for the good guys! The full ruling can be found here [pdf file]. June 4th, 2003 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
June 3rd, 2003 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
John Naughton has written an article about blogging and much to my surprise, he avoids all the usual Big Media whinging.
Read the whole article, it is good stuff! June 1st, 2003 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
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