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Wired August 24, 2009 Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. |
Search Engine Watch August 12, 2009 Andy Atkins-Kruger |
Translating Keywords Should Never EVER Happen Keywords are the fruit of a language, hanging on the branches of trees that grew and were nurtured in the local climate and are rooted in the local culture. Translation can't predict that. |
Wired July 20, 2009 Jonathon Keats |
Jargon Watch: Virus Battery, Kettling, Caloplaca Obamae New words for new situations. |
Wired June 22, 2009 Jonathon Keats |
Jargon Watch: Queasing, Predator X, Greenfinger New words for contemporary phenomena and newly discovered dinosaurs |
Information Today June 2009 K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Why the Frame of `Piracy' Matters What does piracy really mean? The term's definition and history are important along with the reasons why its continued misrepresentation matters to the country's copyright policy. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Paul McFedries |
Suffix It to Say The ubiquitous suffix illustrated in contemporary English words to look out for, like vaporware, freeware, shareware et al. |
Wired May 22, 2009 Jonathon Keats |
Jargon Watch: Gastric Condom, Equasy, Dark Flow, Virtual Parent Definitions for gastric condom, equasy, dark flow, and virtual parent. |
Wired Jonathon Keats |
Jargon Watch: Meta-Meta, Kenken, Micromagician, Patternicity New terms for metapuzzles, logic puzzles, magicians, and finding patterns. |
Wired March 23, 2009 Jonathon Keats |
Jargon Watch: Satellite Sheik, Spitterati, Locasexual New terms to define media-savvy religious leaders, celebrities into genetic sequencing, a giant amoeba, and an environmentalist who dates close to home. |
Wired Jonathon Keats |
Jargon Watch: Valedictocracy, ISS Toolbag, Chemistrode New words to help describe current news. |
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