Just wanted to mention that "podcast" apparently narrowly beat out "bird flu", "IDP" and "squick" for the New American Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2005. Good choice, eds. Um, squick?
Podcast is the Word of the Year
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(Page 1)2. Realistically, though, social software's reign is bound to end in this contest some time, and I wouldn't want to get too off topic and cross your...
squick
http://www.fanworks.org/writersresource/?tool=termdict&action=define&termid=510
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Marshall Kirkpatrick
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1. "blog" was the logophile fetish of 05, podcast in 06, what then for 07? I'm going to think of some guesses...
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Marshall Kirkpatrick