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Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet
prostoalex writes "If you're launching a new blog into the blogosphere, does the common netiquette allow you to have a separate wiki to go with a blog? If the previous sentence irritated you, you're not alone. Folksonomy, blogosphere, blog, netiquette and blook are among the most hated Internet words, Lulu Blooker Prize research found."
Oblig. maddox link.
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
dub,dub,dub aka www. I hate when people say that. Sounds like they are trying way to hard to be cool.
It's been around for five years... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy#Origin. I think I've only seen it when I was reading various documents that tried to introduce and explain tagging... I don't know if anyone used it besides the theoretical explanation of tags. But it's certainly been around for a while...
Actually, 'mashup' is a word used in Jamaica and some other former British colonies in Britain. It means 'destroy', 'wreck', etc. Seriously.
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E.g. "Streaming Audio" -> "Podcast"
Well, I agree with your basic point that a "podcast" is certainly not something that really needed a newly-coined name.
But a podcast is certainly not streaming audio. IPods don't have wifi, so listening to streamed audio on an iPod would require it to be connected to a computer at all times: this defeats the entire purpose of a portable audio player.
The word 'blog' annoys me, as does 'voip' when it's said as a word (they pronounce it voyp) and not an acronym.
If it isn't pronounced it's not properly an acronym. I.E. NATO, FUBAR and VOIP are proper acronyms where as IBM is not.
A blog about stuff.
Correction: "Netiquette" is a much older term than what many seem to think, and stands for network etiquette, not Internet etiquette.
Netiquette applies just as much to Fidonet, Bitnet, Usenet[1] and other networks.
[1]: Usenet isn't all inside Internet. It becomes more and more so with time, but there's still nodes that use other forms of propagation, whether it's BBS gateways, Fidonet or UUCP.
I think promulgate works fine. Wird is making them known by open declaration, it's publishing it, and in a sense it's teaching an "etc." publicly. It might be slightly awkward in that sentence, but no more so than propagate would be.
Myself, I would have said "spread". There's really nothing wrong with short, simple, ancient, Anglo-Saxon words.
Nope, they're not a UK thing - I've never heard either of them either. I can guess at the meaning of "folksonomy", but have absolutely no idea what "blook" would mean...
It's official. Most of you are morons.
According to Wikipedia, the name "Podcast" was first suggested in this article in February 2004.
By the way, anyone who blames Apple for the name "Podcast" should note that Apple didn't get on board the Podcasting bandwagon until over a year later. Of course Apple is happy with the name, and Microsoft hates it.
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$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
AJAX is simply DHTML (another acronym I never liked) that uses XMLHTTPRequest to query the server, instead of reloading the whole page. A great example of AJAX is Google Suggest - every time you type a letter in the search box, it retrieves a list of suggestions.
XMLHTTP was originally created by Microsoft so they could use it for Outlook Web Access in Internet Explorer 5. Mozilla imitated it with the non-proprietary XMLHTTPRequest, which everyone else quickly adopted.
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
except that meme was coined by a biologist long before 'the internet' was a viable system
Bad English & bad Latin.
You forgot Eric S. Raymond and Richard Stallman. On that note, I would add that referring to these people by their initials annoys me almost as much as the people themselves.
Maybe. Like I said, I knew what he was trying to say.
Asynchronous is one of those words like inflammable. If you think about it too long, your brain hurts. Asynchronous means things not happening at the same time. Thus people cannot collaborate on a document at the same time. Of course, in computing, asynchronous takes on a different meaning, though it essentially means the same thing only on a very small scale, which in turn allows more instant updates / refreshes, which flips the definition.
He should have just said that Sharepoint allows people to work together interactively on a document. Plain speech doesn't make you sound dumb. It takes a sharp mind to take complex concepts and make them simple and easily understood. Any idiot can take complex things (or for the bigger idiot, simple things) and make them complex. Which brings me back to software vendors and buzzwords...
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