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Questionable Definitions

I have attempted to put together a cursory glossary of terms associated with computer mediated communication. This list is not definitive but it offers help to newcomers to social software.

 

Blog (or Weblog) -- a blog is basically an online journal that is available on the Web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the journal. Blog content ranges from news and information, personal reflections, and political commentary.

 

Cyberspace -- coined by author William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," cyberspace is now used to describe all of the information available through computer networks.

 

Feed -- documents containing headlines and descriptions used for Web syndication, often with links to new articles or blog entry posts and brief descriptions.

 

Folksonomy -- an informal means of categorizing information on the web (often referred to as "tags" or "tagging"). Examples of web services that use folksonomies or tags include those designed to allow users to publish and share photographs, personal libraries, bookmarks, which allows authors to assign categories to each entry.

 

HTTP -- the Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the set of rules for exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide Web.

 

HTML -- short for Hyper Text Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web.

 

Hyperlink -- the text or elements you find on a Web site which can be "clicked on" with a mouse, which in turn will take you to another Web page or a different area of the same Web page.

 

Hypermedia -- a document that can include text, images, sound and/or motion and that may provide links to other media or documents.

 

Hypertext -- textual data that is "linked" across multiple documents or locations.

 

Instant messaging or IM -- a form of electronic communication which involves immediate correspondence between two or more users who are all online simultaneously.

 

Internet (or The Net) -- an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world. Also jokingly referred to as "the intarweb."

Internet Forum -- a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions, or the web application software used to provide the facility. Web-based forums perform a similar function as the dial-up bulletin boards.

 

Meatspace -- the physical world as opposed to cyberspace.

 

Podcasting -- podcasting is like broadcasting wherein audio content is delivered via an RSS feed presenting a downloadable or streaming file (often mp3).

 

RSS - Really Simple Syndication -- it is an alternative means of accessing the vast amount of information that now exists on the world wide web. Instead of the user browsing websites for information of interest, the information is sent directly to the user.

 

RSS Aggregator -- an aggregator is able to subscribe to an online feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content.

 

RSS Reader -- is an application that reads many RSS feeds on behalf of one or more RSS subscriber. Most RSS readers are also RSS aggregators.

 

Social Bookmarking -- a way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the use of shared lists of user-created Internet bookmark lists.

 

Screencast -- a recording of computer screen output, usually containing audio narration and typically published as a video file. It requires special software to capture screen events and narration.

 

Syndication -- a section or content on a website made available for other sites to use.

 

Tags or tagging -- a means of categorization using freely chosen keywords that function as descriptors that individuals assign to web objects or web postings.

 

Wiki -- A website or online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively.

 

World Wide Web or WWW -- A network of servers linked together by a common protocol, allowing access to millions of hypertext resources.

 

Node

Network

Peer-to-Peer (P2P)

Virtual Reality

URL

Screencasting

MP3 --

 


 

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