Tech Terms: Definitions for Richardson Article

Blog: Short for "weblog." Online forum for most anything: personal, professional, educational. It can be either one-way or two-way communication. You can choose your viewers, and it can be textual or visual.
Feed: RSS which stands for "Really Simple Syndication." There are different types of feeds. It's a way of subscribing to information regularly. It can be posted to blogs or webpages. They can be emailed or appear in bookmarks or on start-up pages. Feeds can appear or be delivered by widgets.
Podcasting: Digital online audio broadcast. They don't have to be in real time. Webcasts include video. Lots on PBS. MP3 format. They are more frequently being used by people in the private sector. Storytelling. Interviews. Speeches. Frequently used for teaching, distance learning. Social Bookmarking: web-based, publically available space that classifies different web links. Favorites list saved to the web rather than to your own computer. del.icio.us, furl. Taggable lists for searching and organizing. You can see people who have access to your bookmarks, and then you can access theirs because you obviously have something in common. Wiki: Hawaiian for "quick." It's like a whiteboard that anyone can write to/on. Monitored (or not) by the community. Some can be restricted to specific users, and some are available to anyone. Informative--or not. Wikipedia. "I just pooped." Most platforms allow owners to recover from vandalism by keeping all versions of a page to which a person can revert.