Thanks to @barbaranixon for the inspiration with her Twitter lexicon blog post.

A few key terms you need to know to understand the Twitter world (Twittertopia?).

Tweet: Your 140-character (or shorter) message
Tweep: Someone you know on Twitter
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Terms of service are the “fine print” rules that online publishers establish and that users “agree” to follow in exchange for benefiting from the services the site provides. Though seldom read by users (and hard to find on on most … Read more

FTP stands for file transfer protocol. In essence, it’s a set of rules governing the exchange of files between computers over a network such as the Internet. FTP is commonly used to download files from a server. The address … Read more

A TrackBack is an automated notification that lets one blog let another blog know it’s being linked to, thus facilitating “conversations” between blogs. Say, for example, that a food blog publishes a post with a link to a wine blog. … Read more

A blogroll is a list of links in which a blogger points readers to related blogs. It says, in effect, if you liked my blog, you might be interested in these others, too. A blogroll typically runs down the side … Read more

Technoratiis a search engine devoted to finding and organizing content in the ever-expanding blogosphere – including the thousands of blogs hosted by news organizations. Although Technorati made its name with blogs, it has expanded to include the search for … Read more

A chicklet is the small icon, or button, often seen on Web pages and blogs indicating that users can subscribe to a feed of the type of content displayed there – such as postings to a blog. Clicking on the … Read more

Final Cut Pro is an Apple software program widely used in newsrooms to edit video shot by photographers and reporters for posting on news sites. It’s an example of a non-linear editing program, which allows the editor to access frames … Read more