Blog — a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links created for public consumption. The word is a hybrid of the words ‘web’ and ‘log’.

Blogger — someone who runs a blog>

Blogosphere — the collective term encompassing all blogs as a community of social networking. Many blogs are densely interconnected; bloggers read each others’ blogs, link to them, reference them in their own writing, and post comments on each others’ blogs. Because of this the interconnected blogs have grown their own culture.

Po$> — the written comments put onto a blog by either a blogger or someone who visits the blogger’s website.

Thr<$> — a collection of posts on a single topic. A thread is typically led by the blogger and visitors contribute their input behind the blogger’s lead.