A Case of the Twiggles
I’m sure most of you have heard of Web 2.0. Essentially, it encompasses web technology that facilitates creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users. The practical and most visible effect of 2.0 is the development of self-propagating and self-sustaining web-based communities and social networking sites, wikis, blogs and so on.
Tech blog A List Apart gives this description: Web 2.0 is a fresh-faced starlet on the intertwingled longtail to the disruptive experience of tomorrow.
The creative and participative nature of Web 2.0 and its progeny (like Facebook, You Tube and Twitter) have conspired to generate an English vernacular all its own. There are some weird combination words that may or (if we are lucky) may not ever take hold. David Armano’s Logic + Emotion offers his Top 10, gleaned from Twitter, for our consideration. They include:
- Twiggles
A spontaneous burst of laughter caused by interactions on Twitter. As in, “Oh, look who has a case of the twiggles today!”
- Emotrics
“Yes, we’ve seen the metrics. But what about the Emotrics? We need to measure emotional engagement!”
- Facehook
When you write catchy lines or clever comments in order to get more traffic on Facebook
“If I want more friends, I really need a Facehook - something to draw them in…”
And for those who are overwhelmed by the endless stream of pap and punditry coming from the millions of blogs, a reader offers this evocative addition: Bloggorrhea.
How long will it be, I wonder, before someone publishes the Merriam Webster 2.0?
