Comments by factoryjoe

  • Originally discovered on Slide 103:

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

    October 27, 2009

  • From Caterina Fake:

    • Eustress = Positive exhilarating challenging experiences of success followed by higher expectations

    • Distress = Disappointment, failure, threat, embarrassment and other negative experiences

    August 26, 2009

  • 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

    December 17, 2008

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

    October 16, 2008

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

    October 16, 2008

  • From eduFire

    October 3, 2008

  • In context:

    October 3, 2008

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

    September 3, 2008

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

    July 25, 2008

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

    July 22, 2008

  • As in, "benevolent dictator for life".

    July 22, 2008

  • As seen on FriendFeed.

    July 7, 2008

  • ...is million billion terabytes.

    June 3, 2008

  • Short form of "R u fucking kidding me?"

    May 6, 2008

  • "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

    March 25, 2008

  • This will be the name of my first child.

    March 25, 2008

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

    March 21, 2008

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

    March 20, 2008

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

    March 20, 2008

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

    March 20, 2008

  • Credit to anotherjesse for this one!

    February 17, 2008

  • First!

    December 14, 2007

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

    November 8, 2007

  • If I don't lose control

    Explore and not explode

    A preternatural other plane

    With the power to maintain

    October 18, 2007

  • It's pronounced "fuh kuk".

    October 7, 2007

  • 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.

    July 13, 2007

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

    April 26, 2007

  • Scott Berkun used this word at ETECH 2007.

    March 28, 2007