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A '''linklog''' is a type of [[blog]] which is meant to act as a linked list.  Common practice is for the post titles to link directly to an external [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]]s, and the content of the post includes information to complement the associated URL.<ref name="octopress">{{cite web|url=http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/linklog/|title=Writing a Linklog|date=2012-02-12|last1=Mathis|first1=Brandon}}</ref>

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.<ref name="kistler">{{cite book|title=Disconnected Operation in a Distributed File System|url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540606277|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214043931/http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540606277|archive-date=2017-12-14|format=PDF|last1=Kistler|first1=James|series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science|date=1993-05-01|volume=1002|location=School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University|publisher=Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg|doi=10.1007/3-540-60627-0|isbn=9783540606277|s2cid=1563818|issn=0302-9743|edition=1}} [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coda/docdir/jjk-thesis.pdf Alt URL]</ref>

In PBX systems such as [[AUDIX]] link-logs were a collection of data collecting to assist operators in maintaining the system.<ref name="audix">{{cite book|url=http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/003676390|format=PDF|page=35|publisher=Lucent Technologies|title=DEFINITY AUDIX System Release 3.2.4}}</ref>

==Linklog software==
* [https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki Betula] - A self-hosted single-user bookmarking software integrated with the [[Fediverse]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070629133618/http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkwalla/ Linkwalla] - A lightweight link blogging engine 
* [[Delicious (website)|Delicious]], a social bookmarking web service - Now Defunct

==See also==
* [[Microblogging]]

==External links==
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* [http://www.rubyflow.com/ The Ruby and Rails community linklog]
* [http://dotat.at/:/ Tony Finch's linklog]

==References==
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