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Let's Talk About Hashtags: Twitter continues to spawn new social practices, and new words to talk about them
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on April 9, 2013
Customizing the Excel Quick Access Toolbar:
Source: Excel 2013 Simplified
Posted on April 2, 2013
Workweek Creep Is Turning Leisure Into Weisure: Social media is just the latest technological assault on our free time, and on our language
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on March 5, 2013
I'm in the Mood for MOOCs: To describe new massive open online college courses, we need new words
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on December 6, 2012
From Surf to Serf: Digital sharecroppers, unite!
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on October 2, 2012
Measuring the Impact of Altmetrics: When it comes to ranking academic influence, PageRank is just the start
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on August 1, 2012
Review: Cloud Computing: Beyond the Hype: (Interview)
Source: Cloud Source Blog
Posted on July 16, 2012
Consumption 2.0: Ownership is being replaced by online tools to rent, share, and trade
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on June 1, 2012
How Do I Connect My iPad to a Network?:
Source: The new iPad Portable Genius
Posted on May 10, 2012
Circumventing Visual Challenges:
Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Using Your Computer—For Seniors
Posted on May 9, 2012
Occupy English: The 99 percenters now have new ways to talk about the other 1 percent
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on April 5, 2012
Tufte-isms: The proponents of information design, present—and talk about—data efficiently
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on February 1, 2012
How Do I Configure My iPod touch?:
Source: iPod touch Portable Genius
Posted on February 1, 2012
Jargon Watch: Ghost Bike, Ikea effect, Quadrocopter, Narb
Source: Wired UK
Posted on January 31, 2012
Jargon Watch: Gazanging, Atrociology, Twitter-mining, Dejabi
Source: Wired UK
Posted on December 1, 2011
IT Has 26 Words for Data Mining: As data proliferate, so do words for handling them
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on November 29, 2011
Jargon Watch: Fibreshed, Butler lie, R2Per, Hijabista
Source: Wired UK
Posted on November 1, 2011
Jargon Watch: Parahawking, Bacn, Listicle, Beehacker
Source: Wired UK
Posted on October 3, 2011
The Language of Online Life: A word maven reflects on pancake people, cyberbalkanization, and other digital conundrums
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on October 2, 2011
Jargon Watch: First-world problem, Mastermind clause, Parent bouncer, Clicktivism
Source: Wired UK
Posted on September 8, 2011
The Selfish Meme: These little "information-packets with attitude" are spawning words as well as ideas
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on September 1, 2011
Jargon Watch: Gladvertising, SWEDOW, Odyssean malaria, Death tweeter
Source: Wired UK
Posted on June 1, 2011
New Networks Need New Insults: How the pajamahadeen went from heroes to milksops in a few quick years
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on June 1, 2011
Jargon Watch: Demosprudence, Scientific journalism, Social steganography, Wordquake
Source: Wired UK
Posted on May 5, 2011
Jargon Watch: Frienditute, Battle-coding, BURK, Aftercrimes
Source: Wired UK
Posted on April 13, 2011
Locavores, SPIN Farmers, and Pumpkineers—Oh My!: Even Newark, N.J., is becoming a grow-it-yourself paradise
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on April 1, 2011
Jargon Watch: Peep-holing, Entomological terrorism, Gutenbourgeois, Aflockalypse
Source: Wired UK
Posted on March 1, 2011
The Coming Data Deluge: As science becomes more data intensive, so does our language.
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on February 5, 2011
Jargon Watch: Sofalise, Flexisexual, Kitemare, Shadow biosphere
Source: Wired UK
Posted on February 3, 2011
Jargon Watch: Rentership, Cybercasing, Range anxiety, Funemployment
Source: Wired UK
Posted on January 4, 2011
Day of the Living Dead: The iZombie apocalypse is upon us.
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on December 7, 2010
Jargon Watch: Laptop zombies, Disattention, Peep culture, Well-to-wheel
Source: Wired UK
Posted on December 5, 2010
The Age of Spimes: The language of life-cycle inventories has its own life cycle
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Posted on October 1, 2010
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