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- adj. newspapers Situated in the upper half of the front page of a broadsheet newspaper, and thus more prominent, as the lower half is not usually visible when the folded newspaper is displayed for sale.
- adj. web design By extension, situated near the top of a web page; not requiring scrolling. See above the scroll.
- adj. Anything similarly occupying an exclusive position of relative prominence
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Lists
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TheLaughorist's list
Solipsistic Stew
sphalm, solipsism, philopolemic, fulgor, dorbel, elozable, amnion, woiwode, illiquid, pinkwash, clawback, folderol and 9 more...
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
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Digital Terms
Words come and go, perhaps nowhere faster than online. Some industry terms to stay current -- or to remember as they rest in peace.
tweet, cpm, crackberry, nofollow, brick-and-mortar, page view, double opt-in, opt-in, opt-out, mash-up, word of mouth, ctr and 200 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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A Mint of Phrases in My Brain
Phrases/figures of speech I've always liked, and new ones that have caught my eye.
niche worrying, hilarious misunde..., above the fold, flying spaghetti ..., colossal gall, festering gob, unmitigated gall, smacked ass, endoplasmic retic..., nunya, dad joke, relentless hordes and 200 more...
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slipstreaming, derailleur, sapwood, obovate, wickerwork, rupestrine, orthographical, fructified, dynamometer, stolidity, shadow puppeting, hyperpolyglot and 63 more...
Tweets
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john 'Hitlery Channel', that's hysterical. Reesetee, you should wordie that! Sep 9, 2007
reesetee Er...I used paste, seanahan. Rilly. I mean actual glue.
Yep, those were the days.
John, do you really think we've come that far in this discussion? Maybe you've been watching the Hitlery Channel too much. ;-) Sep 9, 2007
john Ah, un*x. I just got out-geeked! It's only a matter of time before someone says we should properly be talking about 'yank', and from there it's a slippery slope until we're calling each other Nazis :-)
Uh, it feels inappropriate to be following the word Nazi with a smiley. Sep 9, 2007
seanahan I always associate cut and paste with highlight and middle click. I understand the use of cut, but who ever actually used paste? Sep 9, 2007
john You're right, I so associate cut and paste with ctrl-c and -v that I forget they're something you can do to paper.
In the early nineties some friends and I did a 'zine, and we had one issue printed with offset lithography (the rest were xeroxed). We had to make a proper pasteup for the printer, and it felt archaic even then. Sep 9, 2007
oroboros Why, it's always at the bottom of the top of the page, silly! Rilly! Sep 9, 2007
reesetee It's interesting how many of these older print terms have been picked up for computer use--even back to "cutting" and "pasting" in word processing documents. Who actually cuts and pastes anymore? And where's the fold on a web page? ;-) Sep 9, 2007
john Newspaper speak for stories that appear on the top half of the front page (or the front of a section), so that they're visible when the paper is folded. Webspeak for content that's visible on a web page without having to scroll. Sep 9, 2007