Synonyms
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- Blog or a Blog Site:
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A blog can be defined as a website that displays, in a reverse chronological order, the entries by one or more individuals and usually has links to comments on specific postings. Blogs often provide opinions, commentaries, or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function more like personal online diaries. Blogs often archive the old entries and keep them accessible. RSS or XML feeds of blogs are made available by the blogging platforms for convenient syndication
- Blog Post:
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An entry in a blog is called blog post. A typical blog post can combine text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic
- Blogroll:
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Some blogs provide a list of links to similar or related blogs. Such a list of links is called a blogroll
- Blogger:
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An individual who authors a blog post is referred as a blogger
- Blogging:
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The act of updating a blog (adding an...
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Agarwal, N., Mahata, D., Liu, H. (2014). Time- and Event-Driven Modeling of Blogger Influence. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_378
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