Blogging terms are confusing, primarily due to their extraordinary number. I read once that one of the reasons that lawyers are paid so much is because they spend 4 years in grad school learning terms - and then they protect this advantage by using those terms extensively in their writings - only other lawyers can understand what the heck they're talking about. It seems that bloggers have inadvertently started to build similar barriers to entry. Unfortunately, if you really want to dive into blogging, you'll have to spend some time decoding.
Here are some links to various dictionaries, glossaries, abbreviations, and acronyms.
Blogossary.com - this is one of the best I've seen
If you're really interested in a term, don't stop at blogossary - go deeper. Chances are that there's an entire Wikiepedia page written about that one term. For example, if you look up Pingback on Blogossary, you get this:
A pingback is a notification letting a blog or website know that it has been referenced (or linked to) by another blog. Pingbacks usually include a short excerpt of the post containing the link, along with a link to the website.
But that's not really enough detail to differentiate a pingback from a trackback, for instance. So head to Wikipedia and search for "Pingback" - and you'll get this page which has a lot more information and will lead you this Wordpress tutorial about Trackbacks and Pingbacks, which you'll also want to read. After that lengthy process, you'll have overcome the lawyer-like barrier to understanding this single blogging term. Good luck with this long learning process!
Other Dictionaries:
A big blog dictionary
Wikipedia's blogging terms page
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