Monday, September 08, 2008
Personism
A good word, and a great blog. Fauxcabulary.com — my slow and steady accumulation of newly formed words that reflect the changing things we need to describe before they’ve officially been coined — got a nice mention on Personism today. Teehee, she said it was “charming.”
Consider my day made.
The Fauxcabulary link is in good company. Do check out the House Industries video link about spelling, presented flip-book style by 102 year-old Ed Rondthaler.
Elsewhere, lots of rehashing of the NYT article about “ambient intimacy” and human closeness in the age of digital networking. Finally, it explains the appeal of twitter (and the cumulative building over time) better than anything else I have read, particularly that you can’t just read a page-full of updates once or twice and get the point of twitter, “Yet it is also why it can be extremely hard to understand the phenomenon until you’ve experienced it. Merely looking at a stranger’s Twitter or Facebook feed isn’t interesting, because it seems like blather. Follow it for a day, though, and it begins to feel like a short story; follow it for a month, and it’s a novel.”
Me, I dig the ambient intimacy.
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