"Blogosphere", "Wiki" and "Netiquette" All Hated Folksonomies According to Study
Thursday, June 21st, 2007;
-- Andy Beal |
It seems the Brits really aren’t down with the latest web-slang. A study by pollsters YouGov ask 2,091 adults which words made them “wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard.” Here’s what made the list…
- Folksonomy
- Blogosphere
- Blog
- Netiquette
- Blook
Also making the top 10 most hated, “wiki” and “cookie.”
Any others make you wince?
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June 21st, 2007 at 10:17 am
AJAX! Seems to be the buzz word thrown about by clients, like it is a brand new programming language and their site has to use AJAX and nothing else.
June 21st, 2007 at 11:32 am
As a rule, I think a slang becomes intolerable when Al Roker talks about it on The Today Show…
Add these…
mashup, widgets…not so much the terms but the ill-informed people who use them
I would also like to call for a temporary restraining order on ‘Web 2.0′
June 21st, 2007 at 12:24 pm
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June 21st, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Blogosphere is clearly the worst word in the language, but “meme” is an amazingly close second, and gaining. I’d put “twitter” third.
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:24 am
Wow, so much “thought leadership” in a single comment thread…
Maybe we’ll go “viral.”
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:27 am
Yahoo.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:10 am
[...] Words that make me squirmWe have a running list of words that make us squirm here in the office, but it is not appropriate for this elegant wing of the blogosphere. Oops, there I go using one of the words that has Britons moving uncomfortably in their chairs. Andy Beal has the story of a recent poll from YouGov. [...]