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On the word 'chronocolonialism', 5 months ago

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:09:01 -0700

Originally discovered on Slide 103:

http://www.slideshare.net/blackbeltjones/dxf2009-utrecht-all-the-time-in-the-world

On the word 'eustress', 7 months ago

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:08:06 -0700

From Caterina Fake:

• Eustress = Positive exhilarating challenging experiences of success followed by higher expectations
• Distress = Disappointment, failure, threat, embarrassment and other negative experiences

On the word 'nascar effect', 10 months ago

Thu, 21 May 2009 10:13:15 -0700

As cited here: http://www.netlingo.com/word/nascar-effect.php

And mentioned here: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/04/06/does-openid-need-to-be-hard/

On the word 'foofaraw', over 1 year ago

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:50:04 -0800

Now here’s the funny thing, something that I believed back during the foofaraw over the Boston edition of Macworld Expo, and something that I still believe: Macworld Expo as an idea would be better off without Apple.

Jason Snell

On the word 'obpop', over 1 year ago

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:39:01 -0700

obpop == obligatory point of passage according to Azeem Azhar.

On the word 'arborescences', over 1 year ago

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:38:24 -0700

Originally discovered in Jyri's talk "Bookmarks, Babies, Barack... and other social objects"

On the word 'teacherpreneur', over 1 year ago

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:38:07 -0700

From eduFire

On the word 'shitcock', over 1 year ago

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:37:15 -0700

In context:

On the word 'molososo', over 1 year ago

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:53:56 -0700

Like MoSoSo (Mobile Social Software) but with the addition of LBS -- location-based services. (Coined by Andrew Turner).

On the word 'failwhale', over 1 year ago

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:24:40 -0700

As in, the colorful character that lets you know when Twitter has gone down.

On the word 'sabdfl', over 1 year ago

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:25:49 -0700

As in, "self-appointed benevolent dictator for life".

On the word 'bdfl', over 1 year ago

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:25:30 -0700

As in, "benevolent dictator for life".

On the word 'failwhaled', over 1 year ago

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:49:58 -0700

As seen on FriendFeed.

On the word 'brontobyte', almost 2 years ago

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:28:59 -0700

...is million billion terabytes.

On the word 'rufkm', almost 2 years ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:11:48 -0700

Short form of "R u fucking kidding me?"

On the word 'wander', almost 2 years ago

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:34:33 -0700

"To move among one's resources, being receptive to alternative sources and new search ideas triggered by the materials that come into view. In our field … one may hypothesis that to WANDER promotes serendipity and enables useful sources that would not otherwise be discovered."

-Bates, 1979a

On the word 'wander', almost 2 years ago

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:47:31 -0700

This will be the name of my first child.

On the word 'defenestration', almost 2 years ago

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:12:41 -0700

See this: http://www.metaphorm.org/pages/portfolio/defenestration/defen.html

On the word 'lovecub', about 2 years ago

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:59:57 -0700

In place of a lovechild or otherwise human offspring, a stuff bear can constitute an effective "lovecub". Polar bears work particularly well.

On the word 'shebang', about 2 years ago

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:52:59 -0700

"And here's the kicker of this whole shebang." --Information Travels Faster, Death Cab for Cutie

On the word 'notmatch', about 2 years ago

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:53:26 -0700

It's like the lovechild of Google and eBay. That's a notmatch. (credit to Britt from Twitter for the inspiration)

On the word 'copmute', about 2 years ago

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:52:53 -0700

This is a funny misspelling of "compute". Yep, that's all. But it's a good one.

On the word 'scrapelet', about 2 years ago

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:51:11 -0800

Credit to anotherjesse for this one!

On the word 'homophilic', over 2 years ago

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:47:47 -0800

First!

On the word 'canadiar', over 2 years ago

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:09:15 -0800

The ability to detect Canadians primary through their dialect, accents, or speech patterns is "Canadiar".

On the word 'preternatural', over 2 years ago

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:41:04 -0700

If I don't lose control
Explore and not explode
A preternatural other plane
With the power to maintain

On the word 'fcuk', over 2 years ago

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:22:58 -0700

It's pronounced "fuh kuk".

On the word 'idempodent', over 2 years ago

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:16:22 -0700

On the word 'janky', over 2 years ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:09:22 -0700

On the word 'idempodent', over 2 years ago

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:50:42 -0700

On the word 'emoticloud', over 2 years ago

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:20:47 -0700

Discovered during a planning session with Satisfaction in reference to using a tagcloud of emoticons to get the emotional temperature of a discussion or topic.

On the word 'doocracy', almost 3 years ago

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:57:40 -0700

Mentioned at Innotech in the Media 2.0 panel to describe a culture of doing rather than one of assignment or compulsion.

On the word 'chronocentrism', almost 3 years ago

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:23:35 -0700

Scott Berkun used this word at ETECH 2007.