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Captcha

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acronym/trademark. An acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.

A ‘Captcha’ is form of a Turing Test (qv) used to differentiate humans from computers programs. Their primary blog related use is to defend a blog’s comment sections from automated spam (qv). The term ‘Captcha’ a trademark of Carnegie Mellon University.

May 19th, 2006 | Comments are closed

Comment Spam

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noun. ‘Spam’ is unsolicited online messages generally of a commercial nature, usually delivered as e-mail (i.e. virtual junk mail). Comment spam however is when someone posts off-topic commercial remarks with links in a blog’s comment section.

Some comment spam is overt but just as often it takes the form of innocuous remarks such as “I agree with your article!” or “Hey, great site!” in a blog’s comment section: the spammer’s ‘payload’ being in the personal details link, which takes you to a dubious (often pornographic) site. One reason comment spam is a major problem is that if readers visit the spammer’s link(s), their site often tries to install browser hijackers, tracking cookies or other adware/malware on the duped reader’s computer. Most comment spam is entered by spambots rather than actually people.

Increasingly blogs are using technical means such as Turing tests, pre-publish moderation or registration in order to prevent spambots from polluting their comments sections with Viagra ads, online pharmacy scams and links to Russian porn sites.

August 9th, 2004 | Comments are closed

Crisis Blog

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noun. A company blog (or ‘Biz Blog’) set up to handle a public relations crisis for a company or institution. This can be either to handle internal communications or to allow a company to present its side of a story in a frank, credible and timely manner when a situation is developing rapidly.

July 29th, 2004 | Comments are closed

Commentariat

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noun. The community of people who leave comments on a blog.

Usage: “We got some useful suggestion from the commentariat today on how to deal the spammer problem.”

October 23rd, 2003 | Comments are closed

Clog Blog

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noun. A Dutch language blog.

June 6th, 2003 | Comments are closed

Commenter

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noun. A person who leaves remarks in the ‘comments’ section which many blogs offer.

November 2nd, 2002 | Comments are closed

Crud (code)

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noun. When a blog is published with incorrect html which resulting in visible code on the page, rather than a clickable link or special character or formatted text. The unintentionally visible code is ‘crud’.

September 15th, 2002 | Comments are closed