Hated buzz words

Friday, 16. November 2007, 01:49:28

A pointless post, but I just hate the word Blogosphere. Eww. It's one of those pretentious made up buzz words, that hardly means anything and tries to make something sound important. Does anyone seriously use this word? It doesn't even sound nice. It's probably even worse than Web 2.0, although I'm still waiting for Web 2.1 to come out and iron out all the bugs.

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Comments

I hate it *and* use it. Actually, I use "echo chamber" preferentially, but switch to "blogosphere" when around people who might take offence.

By allenjs, # 16. November 2007, 05:06:48

Blogosphere uses it a lot

I'm most irritated when "OMGWEB20LOL!!" guys confuse plain old DHTML with AJAX (especially the gesture-hostile annoyingly slow Litebox "AJAX" image viewer)

By porneL, # 16. November 2007, 08:52:06

So... what else would you use to describe the "blog community"?

By haavard, # 16. November 2007, 10:40:56

how about blogs? I do like echo chamber though

By dstorey, # 16. November 2007, 11:52:31

Does anyone really like any buzz words at all? If I would have to say I hated a buzz word, it would be the term "buzz word" it self. :/

Now when that is said, go back to write about Ajax, Web 2.0 and POSH

By NoteMe, # 16. November 2007, 11:59:40

Did this trigger the post?

It's 20 kilometers up, just above the tag clouds

By dantesoft, # 16. November 2007, 12:04:00

I hate the word "blog", and all its derivates. "Blogosphere" is probably the worst of the bunch.

"Weblog" is okay though, that's a perfectly cromulent word.

See also: http://blag.xkcd.com/2007/10/06/wikipedia-blogs/

By Daedalus, # 16. November 2007, 16:47:06