Alphabet soup — understanding blogging lingo
“Hey, I pinged technorati and have validated my XHTML but my feed still looks funny. Do you think I have a problem with a plugin, my CSS, or maybe even mySQL?”
If you’re a typical beginning blogger, you might think you’re drowning in jargon, acronyms, and terminology that only a true nerd can comprehend. While there are many terms you don’t need to know, developing a level of blogging fluency will help you feel more confident and enable you to more quickly become an adept blogger.
“Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.”
~ Kingman Brewster
Helpful Blog Lingo Links
To help you decipher the blogging dialect, here are a few resources that are great to use when you’re starting out.
“Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.”
~ Wendy Kaminer
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This is so true! I’d know what to do if I understood the language better. Anyway since our call tonight I have moved from Twosville to somewhere outside of the area of Three by figuring out how to upload a couple of plugins (thanks to some noodling with Jason). I think I can. I think I can.
Comment by Jean Ann Franke — May 22, 2007 @ 8:39 pm
Go little engine go! Way to reach out for support!
Patience is absolutely key because we’ll all run into things that leave us stumped from time to time. Keep up the great work!
Comment by Shonnie Lavender — May 22, 2007 @ 8:52 pm
Check out http:/www.lingo2word.com/translate.php
here you can just paste in a message to turn it back into plain english
for any abstract jargon definitions use the http://www.lingo2word.com/search.php
Comment by Neil — May 22, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
Thanks for the useful links Neil. Now we can all understand LYLAS, LOL, and other slang and computer shorthand.
cUL8tr
Comment by Shonnie Lavender — May 23, 2007 @ 8:36 pm