Scottish Government

ASCC

Association of Scottish Community Councils

ASP

Active Server Pages - a programming language

Blog

The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. It is a personalised online publishing system.

Blogging

Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging".

Blog posts

Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts" "posts" or "entries".

Blogger

A person who posts entries into a blog is called a "blogger"

CC

Community Council

DCLG

Department of Communities and Local Government

DTD

Document Type Definition. This is a defined set of rules that the code that each webpage contains must adhere to. By declaring it, a coder is saying that his code will meet the criteria for code quality that the DTD in question references.

FCSD: ASD

Finance and Central Services Department Analytical Services Division, Scottish Executive

Google ⁴²

A web search engine, which includes a blog search mechanism

IceRocket

A blog search engine

IT

Information Technology

ICT

Information and Communication Technologies

ITC

International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier University

ODPM

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Open Source

Software that is freely available and free to access over the internet. The basic idea behind open source is that programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, allowing the software to evolve, improve, adapt and fix any bugs. This means improved software applications area available - for free - to all web users. (See http://www.opensource.org/ )

RSS

Really Simple Syndication feeds

SEED

Scottish Executive Education Department ( SEED)

SPAM

Unsolicited email or blog postings on unrelated topics, often generated automatically using software

Search engine spider

A search engine spider is a tool that search engines use to search websites. They 'crawl' code and index pages to find out what a website contains and whether it matches the search terms. ⁴³

Technorati ⁴⁴

A blog search engine.