Jun 22 2007
Survey: Web Lingo 2.0?
According to a new survey “Folksonomy”, “blog”, “webinar” and “social network” are amongst the words mostly likely to make people ‘wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard’
That’s the verdict according to a survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Lulu Blooker Prize which asked 2,091 adults to vote for their least favourite web words.
Folksonomy - defined by Wiktionary as “the spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories” – is a mash up of the words folk and taxonomy and applies to the process of tagging files and data - ranked first in the list.
Del.icio.us and flickr are both well known allowing users to organise their content through tagging.
The list goes like this:
- folksonomy
- blogosphere
- blog
- netiquette
- blook
- webinar
- vlog
- social network
- cookie
- wiki, podcast and avatar
The list looks like a decent reflection on the current state of the language surrounding web 2.0. Could this unweildy language be the why web 2.0 isn’t taking off in the voluntary sector? I haven’t checked the ICT Hub Knowledgebase to see how many infringements on this list it racks up.
Do you have any other hated web words to add to the list? Screencast gets my vote.
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