And now we use it to describe companies battle for brand superiority: "But that campaign is just a slapfight compared with the donnybrooks that have broken out in other product categories." --John Carroll, WBUR (http://www.wbur.org/news/2008/81551_20081124.asp)
The opposite of "mass media." From Wikipedia: "The term Individuation has begun to be used within the media industries to denote new printing and online technologies that permit the mass customization of the contents of a newspaper, a magazine, a broadcast program, or a Web site so that the contents match each individual user's own unique mix of interests, unlike the Mass Media practice of producing the same contents for each and every reader, viewer, listener, or online user."
OK, we must be the most outdated... We use black markers to fill in circles, just like those tests we took in school with the #2 pencils. Then the form goes into the ballot box, which tracks the number of ballots for all to see. (I was # 597 in my precinct today.)
The shovelware era is over. The challenge now is how to use new media as if traditional media had never existed -- to utilize new media's myriad advantages over traditional media. --Vin Crosbie, ClickZ
"Domain tasting...and kiting..., where Web wrongdoers register domains for the five-day trial period to run ads or other quick moneymaking schemes then let the trial period lapse only to register again with another domain registry, has been in somewhat of a decline." --Enid Burns, ClickZ News Blog
"Domain tasting...and kiting..., where Web wrongdoers register domains for the five-day trial period to run ads or other quick moneymaking schemes then let the trial period lapse only to register again with another domain registry, has been in somewhat of a decline." --Enid Burns, ClickZ News Blog
"Domain tasting...and kiting..., where Web wrongdoers register domains for the five-day trial period to run ads or other quick moneymaking schemes then let the trial period lapse only to register again with another domain registry, has been in somewhat of a decline." --Enid Burns, ClickZ News Blog
"Typo squatting won't be as easily squashed entirely. Just this morning Search Engine Journal posted not only an example, but a first hand experience coming across a typo squatting site." --Enid Burns, ClickZ News Blog
"According to many SEO experts, Web sites with newly registered or newly purchased domains are placed in a holding area on Google until the site is deemed acceptable enough to appear in Google's main search results." -- Shari Thurow, "Google Sandbox: Fact or Fiction?," ClickZ
"Basically, it describes the next generation of online services delivered through the Web. Think of Flickr, Wikipedia, Ning, and del.icio.us, and you'll get the point." --Sean Carton, ClickZ
from Word Spy: "1. A fake blog containing links to sites affiliated with the blogger with the intent of boosting the search engine rankings and ad impressions for those sites. 2. Spam links added to the comments section of a blog."
Says SearchMobileComputing.com: "A common short code (CSC) is a short telephone number, usually consisting of five digits, that is used to address SMS and MMS messages from a cellular telephone. Common short codes may also be called mobile short codes or short numbers. Each common short code is designed to be unique to each operator."
"As with actual berry picking behavior, people "forage" from one information "bush" to another, plucking nuggets of information where they find them, storing them for later use, then moving on." --Sean Carton, ClickZ. He also quotes Marcia Bates's 1989 paper.
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ecbrenner commented on the word causal dress
What should it cause?
December 18, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word crackberry
It's now been added to Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/crackberries.html. It's gaining status, of some sort. :-)
December 6, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word donnybrook
And now we use it to describe companies battle for brand superiority: "But that campaign is just a slapfight compared with the donnybrooks that have broken out in other product categories." --John Carroll, WBUR (http://www.wbur.org/news/2008/81551_20081124.asp)
November 25, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word individuation
The opposite of "mass media." From Wikipedia: "The term Individuation has begun to be used within the media industries to denote new printing and online technologies that permit the mass customization of the contents of a newspaper, a magazine, a broadcast program, or a Web site so that the contents match each individual user's own unique mix of interests, unlike the Mass Media practice of producing the same contents for each and every reader, viewer, listener, or online user."
November 13, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word forblogen
unsuitable or unavailable to be blogged about, "don't post about our new beta, it's still forblogen." -- Julie Meyer (via http://www.dictionaryevangelist.com/2008/11/poptech-words.html)
November 8, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word pod-buster
"an ad designed to thwart DVR users from skipping over it" (NYT, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/magazine/02zalaznick-t.html?_r=1&sq=pod-buster&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin)
November 5, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word lever voting v electronic voting
OK, we must be the most outdated... We use black markers to fill in circles, just like those tests we took in school with the #2 pencils. Then the form goes into the ballot box, which tracks the number of ballots for all to see. (I was # 597 in my precinct today.)
November 5, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word shovelware
The shovelware era is over. The challenge now is how to use new media as if traditional media had never existed -- to utilize new media's myriad advantages over traditional media. --Vin Crosbie, ClickZ
October 30, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word domain kiting
"Domain tasting...and kiting..., where Web wrongdoers register domains for the five-day trial period to run ads or other quick moneymaking schemes then let the trial period lapse only to register again with another domain registry, has been in somewhat of a decline." --Enid Burns, ClickZ News Blog
October 8, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word kiting
"Domain tasting...and kiting..., where Web wrongdoers register domains for the five-day trial period to run ads or other quick moneymaking schemes then let the trial period lapse only to register again with another domain registry, has been in somewhat of a decline." --Enid Burns, ClickZ News Blog
October 8, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word domain tasting
"Domain tasting...and kiting..., where Web wrongdoers register domains for the five-day trial period to run ads or other quick moneymaking schemes then let the trial period lapse only to register again with another domain registry, has been in somewhat of a decline." --Enid Burns, ClickZ News Blog
October 8, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word typo-squatting
"Typo squatting won't be as easily squashed entirely. Just this morning Search Engine Journal posted not only an example, but a first hand experience coming across a typo squatting site." --Enid Burns, ClickZ News Blog
October 8, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word google sandbox
"According to many SEO experts, Web sites with newly registered or newly purchased domains are placed in a holding area on Google until the site is deemed acceptable enough to appear in Google's main search results." -- Shari Thurow, "Google Sandbox: Fact or Fiction?," ClickZ
October 3, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word usp
unique selling proposition; the unique thing your company has to offer prospects
October 3, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word flint
"a fan-discovered continuity error." --@emckean, http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1595414/story.jhtml
October 3, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word web 2.0
"Basically, it describes the next generation of online services delivered through the Web. Think of Flickr, Wikipedia, Ning, and del.icio.us, and you'll get the point." --Sean Carton, ClickZ
September 29, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word vlog
video+blog
September 29, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word splog
spam+blog
from Word Spy: "1. A fake blog containing links to sites affiliated with the blogger with the intent of boosting the search engine rankings and ad impressions for those sites. 2. Spam links added to the comments section of a blog."
September 29, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word short code
Says SearchMobileComputing.com: "A common short code (CSC) is a short telephone number, usually consisting of five digits, that is used to address SMS and MMS messages from a cellular telephone. Common short codes may also be called mobile short codes or short numbers. Each common short code is designed to be unique to each operator."
September 29, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word berrypicking
"As with actual berry picking behavior, people "forage" from one information "bush" to another, plucking nuggets of information where they find them, storing them for later use, then moving on." --Sean Carton, ClickZ. He also quotes Marcia Bates's 1989 paper.
September 29, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word pure play
Will they be Internet pure plays, major brands, smaller and low-overhead businesses, or something we haven't considered?
September 26, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word dot-bomb
As the current dot-com shakeout is illustrating, "pure-play," impersonal e-commerce sites are quickly moving from dot-com to dot-bomb.
September 26, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word ctr
click-through rate
September 26, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word b2c
business-to-consumer
September 26, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word b2b
business-to-business
September 26, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word cgm
consumer-generated media
September 26, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word cpm
cost per thousand
September 26, 2008