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A-List: Supposedly a list of bloggers (also called A-Listers) that receives more traffic and attention than the rest of the blogosphere. The existence of such an A-List is debated, as well as the reasons behind the higher popularity of those bloggers.
AdSense: The most popular advertising network on the Internet. It is owned by Google, and it allows bloggers to monetize their blogs by displaying contextual text messages. Every time someone clicks on one of the text links, the blogger will earn some money (ranging from $0.01 up to $50 in some rare cases).
AdWords: The opposite end of AdSense. Google AdWords enables companies and individuals to promote their products, services and websites under a cost per click (CPC) model. The advertiser needs to specify the keywords that he wants to target, and how much he is willing to pay for each click. The ads might appear on Google’s search results as well as on the AdSense units found on other websites (called “Content Network).
Affiliate Marketing: A popular way to make money online where you have a merchant that is willing to let other people (affiliates) sell his own products or services, in exchange for a commission. Commissions can be fixed or variable, and based on clicks, leads or sales.
Akismet: The most popular spam filter plugin for WordPress blogs. It was created by the same company that coded WordPress, called Automattic.
Alexa: An internet company (subsidiary of Amazon.com) that tracks the traffic for all websites on the Internet. The rankings used to be inferred from the statistical usage of a browser toolbar. Recently they changed the algorithm to remove the toolbar bias in favor of technology related website. Keep in mind that the lower the Alexa ranking, the higher the traffic of the website. There is some controversy regarding the accuracy of the rankings.
Anchor Text: The text of a backlink. Most search engine experts agree that the archor text is a factor that can influence largely the search rankings of a website or web page. The more topical they are the better (provided some variety is included, else a spam penalty could occur).
Archives: A section of a blog where all or some of the existing posts are displayed. They can be displayed by category, by month, by year and so on. Read More

WordPress 2.6

I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual [1], with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engineTechnorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[2] With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something.