Poll on annoying Internet neologisms
There's this story going around about a supposed poll to determine the most annoying word produced by the Internet. I found it here (AFP -> Yahoo news): http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/tc_afp/britaininternetlanguage and here (Telegraph.co.uk, Sally Peck) (excerpt below, if you care about the results of this alleged poll) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/22/wiphone222.x... However, there's no mention of this poll on the YouGov.com web site, nor on lulu.com nor or lulublookerprize.com. Did this poll really happen? Regards, Dan Prives Where Most Needed The Charity Industry Blog http://www.wheremostneeded.org The YouGov poll, in which 2,000 web users voted for their least favourite word spawned by the internet, celebrates the second annual Blooker Prize, which honours the year's best "blook", or book based on a blog. The 10 most irksome words spawned by the internet: 1. Folksonomy: an ad hoc online classification system 2. Blogosphere: the collective term for the online blogging community 3. Blog: an online journal or web-log 4. Netiquette: internet etiquette 5. Blook: a book based on a blog 6. Webinar: an online seminar 7. Vlog: a video blog 8. Social networking: the use of the web to form "virtual communities" 9. Cookie: a text file stored on your computer from a website you visited 10.(tie) Wiki: a collaborative website in which multiple authors add, remove and edit content Podcast: a downloadable audio file Avatar: an icon used to represent oneself online User-generated content: web content created by use
Dan - We should take our own poll among AoIRers. Not a word but a dreadful pronunciaton - my vote would go to some of the staff at a Midwestern university who pronounce URL as earl. I hope it's not catching on! Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tues: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/ Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/
It appears that the "poll" was not in fact a poll... It seems. - Casey http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/06/making-the-news.html Making the News June 25, 2007 The gist: A lighthearted unscientific poll that was created as a PR ploy for a tech company is quickly evolving into a "real" news story, being treated as fact by mainstream press. That evolution from marketing effort to established fact can have real impact on people who works in related fields. This phenomenon is worth examining because, while this fairly harmless example hasn't resulted in a lot of drama, it shows the pattern that underlies a lot of the drama that tends to pop up in web communities. .... On 6/22/07, Dan Prives <dprives@gmail.com> wrote:
There's this story going around about a supposed poll to determine the most annoying word produced by the Internet.
I found it here (AFP -> Yahoo news):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/tc_afp/britaininternetlanguage
and here (Telegraph.co.uk, Sally Peck) (excerpt below, if you care about the results of this alleged poll)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/22/wiphone222.x...
However, there's no mention of this poll on the YouGov.com web site, nor on lulu.com nor or lulublookerprize.com.
Did this poll really happen?
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Casey O'Donnell -
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Denise N. Rall