A linklog is a type of
blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...
which is meant to act as a linked list. Common practice is for the post titles to link directly to an external
URL
A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identi ...
s, and the content of the post includes information to complement the associated URL.
Linklogs existed as a feature of computing systems before the internet as well. In distributed file systems a link log was a method of recording data in which a record is created and added to the proper log when updating a transaction. The format of a log record closely matches the specification of the transaction type it corresponds to. Link log records consisted of two parts in such a system: a set of type-independent fields, and a set of type-specific fields. The former set consists of pointers to the preceding and succeeding records of the log.
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In PBX systems such as AUDIX link-logs were a collection of data collecting to assist operators in maintaining the system.
Linklog software
Betula
- A self-hosted single-user bookmarking software integrated with the Fediverse.
Linkwalla
- A lightweight link blogging engine
* Delicious, a social bookmarking web service - Now Defunct
See also
* Microblogging
Microblogging is a form of blogging using short posts without titles known as microposts or status updates. Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links", which may be the ...
External links
The Ruby and Rails community linklog
Tony Finch's linklog
References
Internet terminology
Blogs by type
Computer-mediated communication
Information systems
Web syndication
Web syndication formats
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