Archive for the 'T' Category

Tumblelogs

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

Tumblelogs were what the first microblogs were called.

Trackback

Monday, March 6th, 2006

A trackback is a way for one blog to notify another that it is linking to one of its entries. An excerpt with a link to the linking blog usually appears on the referenced blog.

Additional trackback resources:
WikiPedia: Trackback
Six Apart – Trackback Technical Specs
Six Apart – Trackback As Internet Standard

See also:

Tag

Monday, March 6th, 2006

A tag is a label assigned to a blog entry to help describe it and/or file it. Bloggers also tag each other to participate in a meme or to post on the same topic.The use of tags for labelling blog entries was popularized by Technorati, which organizes blogs based on their tags.

Some tagging resources include Technorati and IceRocket.