Definitions by PRwiz101
scrapblog
(n.) - a highly-personal blog, often for invited readers only, that is more like a scrapbook than a normal blog.
"Yeh, I have a blog, but it's more of a scrapblog than a blog, because it's mostly just photos and links and quotes I like to collect, just for my own use. It's like a scrapbook on a blog platform, that's all, so I call it my scrapblog!"
-- Overheard at a watercooler in Big Spring, Texas on January 5, 2010
-- Overheard at a watercooler in Big Spring, Texas on January 5, 2010
snailpaper
(n.) - the print edition of the daily newspaper which arrives in the morning on your doorstep with news that is already old and stale by at least 12 hours
"I am sick and tired of reading the snailpaper edition of the New York Times! By the time it arrives, the front page is already old news. I much prefer reading the Times online website with the up-dated news as it happens."
-- overheard at a bar in the East Village in Manhattan, November 15, 2009
-- overheard at a bar in the East Village in Manhattan, November 15, 2009
snailpaper by PRwiz101 November 21, 2009
Urban Dick
(n.) -- Nickname, in a friendly and easy-to-pronounce form, for a popular online dictionary called the Urban Dictionary.
"I love seeing the new definitions of words that keep popping up daily on the Urban Dick! It's a really cool online dictionary."
-- overheard at a watercooler in Chicago, November 12, 2009
-- overheard at a watercooler in Chicago, November 12, 2009
Urban Dick by PRwiz101 November 15, 2009
news karaoke artist
(n.) - Someone who posts on blogs and social networks just to spin other people's more substantial and professional news reports and ideas.
"You know, the blogosphere is now full of so many people who set themselves up as a news karaoke artist, when in fact all they are doing is spinning someone else's commentary. Singing someone else's song. I hate what the Internet is becoming!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Arlington, Virginia on November 1, 2009
-- overheard at a watercooler in Arlington, Virginia on November 1, 2009
news karaoke artist by PRwiz101 November 3, 2009
trollumist
(n.) -- A writer or blogger who "trolls" in a multichannel, multimedia environment, trying to bait readers into a reaction that editors want to generate.
"You know, a true newspaper columnist might make controversial arguments or challenge common sense, but a trollumist merely provokes outrage in order to sell papers, draw links and capture increasingly scarce reader attention. I'm sick of them!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Sydney, Australia, November 1, 2009
-- overheard at a watercooler in Sydney, Australia, November 1, 2009
trollumist by PRwiz101 November 2, 2009
nincompoopellectual
(n.) -- A person whose ideas and comments online are so inane and silly that he or she comes across as more of a nincompoop than a real intellectual.
"My uncle is smart and all that, he went to some Ivy League college, but in fact, he's a real nincompoopellectual most of the time, with all his silly ideas."
-- Overheard at a Thanksgiving dinner party in Teaneck, New Jersey in 2001
-- Overheard at a Thanksgiving dinner party in Teaneck, New Jersey in 2001
nincompoopellectual by PRwiz101 November 2, 2009