Gnomenclature II
Y'all remember how much fun we had with Gnomenclature I? Well, it's back with a venegance! I decided to roll out part II this weekend at the Portable Media Expo… and I think new terms are going to become a staple at every one of my speaking engagements from this point forward. The next set should come in January at Macworld in SF. Until then, please enjoy these:
FLUCKR – An individual who doesn't reciprocate you as a friend on any social network.
DIGG DUH – A three year-old link that suddenly gets popular again.
CAN'TVERGENCE – An excuse that a company might give you to explain that their proprietary hardware and/or software solution is going to one day rule the world without interoperating with other devices.
WEB 2.0 – I don't know, and I don't care.
MOTHER FLUCKR – Anybody who tries to be everybody's friend in a social networking environment.
SKYPEE – The act of going to the restroom in the middle of a VoIP conversation without the other party knowing.
iPODAMMIT – (1) Exclamation from someone who just purchased a new portable media product only to realize that a newer, smaller, better version was being released next month; (2) Exclamation from any company that isn't Apple, Inc.
PODCASTING – Um… so I think… I'll… uh… yeah. Ya know, I think… uh… yeah, so… um… where was I? Oh yeah. Ya know when, um… like, ya know when I was going to the… uh, yeah. Um… um… I think?
ONTARIO – Old French term for “No Restaurant or Good Coffee within Walking Distance.”
LIBSTYNG – The pain one feels when his/her affordable podcasting service goes down without warning.
DAWN ANDREW – A very confused Midwestern housewife who keeps getting dirty calls at 3AM.
YAHOOTERS! – The name a restaurant chain takes when a popular search engine aquires it to “increase productivity.”
EVIAN FLU – A disease that spreads through hotels, causing them to charge you $4 for bottled water in your room.
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3 Comments
jules
November 13th, 2005
at 2:49pm
*FLUCKR – An individual who doesn't reciprocate you as a friend on any social network.*
I've encountered the FLUCKR phenomenon before, people won't reciprocate me as a friend or contact, but they'll make comments on my Flickr photos. WTF?
Oh, and by the way Chris, you were my very first Flickr friend- Thanks again!
Nick Douglas
November 14th, 2005
at 2:37pm
Right on with the “iPodammit” and “Digg Duh.” I never see people call those out.
Noitall
November 15th, 2005
at 6:39am
About that Evian flu, it's like Jimmy Buffet said, “There ain't no dumbass vaccine.”