Wordwatch: Northern Voice Special Edition

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This post was originally published on February 19, 2005 on The Standard, the Raincity Studios blog, credited to “Mark Yuasa”. This post reflects the context and tools of its time; some links and services mentioned no longer exist.

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At last, the unofficial

Top Ten "Bloggy" terms bandied about at Northern Voice

(Excluding Blog, and Blogger):

10) Coffee n. "caffeinated beverage, in high demand and short-supply"

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10) Juice n. "attention or credibility given by preceding noun, ie: google juice", "fruit-based beverage in some demand and no supply"

9) Metadata n. "data about data"
8) Post n. "a blog story", v. "the act of putting data (such as blog stories) on the Web"
7) Tagging v. "seeding metadata 'tags' into posts"
6) Technorati n. "search engine that indexes over 4 million blogs"
5) RSS n. "Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication," "Tivo for the Web"
4) Pod-Casting n. or v. (in deference to Tod Maffin) "subscription-based audio delivery model, facilitated by RSS 2"
3) PubSub n. "feed generating service based on custom terms"
2) Scoble also Scobleizer or The Scoble n. "Microsoft CBO"
1) Blogosphere! n. "the world of blogs (8M), bloggers, and blog-readers (32M)"

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OMG, I made all that fuss about the "Long Tail" and I didn't even include it. The top 15 anyone?

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