Business Week had an interesting article about how editors select which new web-related words should make it into the dictionary. There were some words I hadn’t even heard of, which makes this internet-savvy, 20-something girl feel a little out-dated. Am I the only one who hasn’t heard of any of these?
Astroturfing - the marketing practice of feigning an online grassroots movement to generate positive, seemingly-from-the-people publicity
Vlog – video blog
Crog – a mash-up of “carefully researched” and “blog”
At least I’ve heard of wiki and [the] Google.
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