Top 10 Most Hated Web Words June 24, 2007
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The Internet has spawned many great things but it’s also been responsible for a new kind of bastardised English, or Weblish. According to a new survey of 2,000 Brits, by YouGov on behalf of self-publishers Lulu, here are the Top 10 most irritating Web words/terms.
1. Folksonomy (a web classification system)
2. Blogosphere (the collective term for all blogs)
3. Blog (an online journal)
4. Netiquette (internet etiquette)
5. Blook (a book based on a blog)
6. Webinar (a web or online seminar)
7. Vlog (a video blog)
8. Social Networking (using the web to form virtual communities on sites like MySpace)
9. Cookie (a text file stored on your computer from a website you've visited)
10. Wiki (A collaborative website, editable by its readers)
Still, while they may be mildly annoying to certain people, it should be remembered that the lexicologists at the Collins English Dictionary, recently accepted ‘Godcast’, defined as “a religious service or sermon that has been converted to MP3 format for download from the internet for play on a computer or MP3 player.”
Suddenly ‘blog’ doesn’t seem all that offensive. –Martin Lynch
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"Shlog" is my personal number one – you've got the (ahem) delightful Chris Evans to thank for that. It's – you'll never guess this one – a show and a blog. Marvellous(.)
I'd put Weblish at number two, and that's having only known the term for five minutes....
Web 2.0 and Game 3.0 are two I love to hate. And of course there's Internet 2 - What is it, like the sequal? Revenge of the killer internet.
Zod-like I love you for mentioning those! People, web 2.0 is junk, it's not the "latest craze" it's been around for years!! Get over it!
Mashup, Web 2.0, Blogosphere, Remixability and Microtransactions do it for me. Argh even typing them makes me angry.
im not from singapore nor malaysia so Im blogging with no fear,
in the hope one day it could be a Blook but for now just adding to the Blogosphere,
im fopllowing Netiquette, and a beleiveler on Folksonomy so each tag is my predicate
you better get:
Social Networking membership
a myspace, bebo, facebook
you dunno, then you better look
so get your wiki on
or cookie on,
even start a Vlog cuz yor think your goodlooking, yea i bet your are
in that cause turn up as yourself in a Webinar