Here are a few more thoughts on new words gleaned from life online — gathered at a Berkman Center conference on The Future of the Internet!
Josh Marshall (credit: NY Times)
Joshua Micah Marshall, who founded the influential site Talking Points Memo discusses the term “blogger”, a now old neologism that may have outgrown its usefulness, at least to him!
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(2:30 minutes) to listen. And let us know if you agree!
Ethan Zuckerman (credit: Esther Dyson)
Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices waxes lyrical on the term homophily, which isn’t actually a web word, but it’s a phenomenon playing itself out on the Internet. Click here for clarification!
(2:20 minutes)
Judith Donath
Have you “friended” someone recently? Have you ever? Sooner or later, we’ll all start to friend, or be friended, if we are to inhabit the jolly online world of social networking. MIT Media Lab’s Judith Donath explains….
Click here: (4:17 minutes)
And there’s more!!!
For more neologisms from the world of the web, check out this post! It features brief interviews with Esther Dyson, Jimmy Wales and Tim Wu…
