Crud (code)
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...
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noun. A person who leaves remarks in the ‘comments’ section which many blogs offer.
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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.”
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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...
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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...
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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...
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