Blogging might bring you joy if you can monetize it effectively, but the term ‘blogosphere’ does’nt appeal much to a lot of people if a recent survey by British pollsters YouGov is to be believed. This survey was done for Lulu.com, coverters of blogs into books also known as Blooks. When one considers that a lot size of just 2091 adults took part in the poll, it just does’nt seem a fair representation of the burgeoning web world.
Topping the charts is the word ‘Folksonomy’, a Web classification system. Blogosphere comes a close second. Not surprising that the term ‘blog’was’nt far behind at third. ‘Netiquette’, slang for Web etiquette came a courteous fourth. ‘Blook’ referring to a blog converted to a book, booked itself into fifth place. ‘Webinar’ held fort at the sixth place. The term ‘Vblog’ or Video Blog wandered into the seventh place. ‘Social Networking’ tagged its way to the eight place. The term ‘cookie’ cached itself in the ninth place. Might be hard to snare a back link from Wikipedia, but it was’nt very difficult for the term ‘Wiki’ to round off the top ten..
New words germinate and hatch as the web takes over. The ninth edition of the Collins English dictionary plans to include words like ‘me-media’, a term for personal content websites such as Facebook, and ‘godcast’, a religious service which has been converted to an MP3 format. The way things are, web lingo and web slang march on unfettered and there is the frightening prospect of a new language called Web-lish that would bury English for good on the web…