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technorati 

1. People who are highly knowledgeable about technology, especially digital technology such as computing (IT) and communications (together, ICT). A portmanteau word, "technorati" combines "technical" and "literati".

Singular: technorat.

Synonyms: technoscenti.

Antonyms: newby, luser.

2. An Internet tool and website intended for such people: capitalised as "Technorati".
Joe's one of the technorati - he wrote the book on the Unix Korn shell.
technorati by yuyiya November 26, 2011

technochild 

A person born in the digital communication age, cell phones, iPODs, PSPs, eDevices, PDAs, GPS, HDTV, DVD, etc., and is exposed to their use as an infant, toddler, and up.
If you are twelve, and carry a laptop to school, you are a technochild.
technochild by Guido1 March 16, 2008

technorati 

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo, PubSub and IceRocket. As of August 2006, Technorati indexes over 55 million weblogs. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.

Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik is the site's Chief Technologist.

Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare and later of Wi-Fi access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developer's wiki, where developers and contributors collaborate, as well as various open APIs.

The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show. It has also been nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices.

Technorati is blocked in China. China has, as a consequence, been widely criticized for its censorship.
A: I've tried everything I could to track her blog down.

B: Any luck?

A: Hell yea! Thank god there's technorati, her previous blog said she've had better than me.

B: Ouch!
technorati by fl!ps!de December 8, 2006

technorating 

Researching through blogs using blog's search engines like technorati.
A: I was technorating under my nickname and I just found out that Susie Lou had a crush on me during last year prom night.

B: Susie who?

A: The nympho that always shows her cleavage to Prof. Little.

B: You could've got laid bro.

A: And your girl wants to deepthroat me.
technorating by fl!ps!de December 8, 2006

technoratized 

being watched or under heavy surveillanced in the blogging world.
Linda: I can't believe it, John knew I had a crush on him all this while.

Cyndi: Did you blog him all the time?

Linda: OWH great.. i've been technoratized!
technoratized by fl!ps!de December 14, 2006
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
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