n. a portmanteau of "link" and "interest" referring to the degree to which a reader is compelled by an online headline to click through to read the entire article
I was going to find out which A-Lister Yahoo! expected to stand out on the Oscars' red carpet, but their headline didn't fill me with enough linkterest.
A maelstrom of linkage, such as happens at youtube, tvtropes.org, wikipedia, and many other sites on the internet. It often causes browser crashes due to too many open tabs. Similar to "pornado".
"I just wanted to look at Sarah Michelle Gellar's profile on IMDB, but it turned into a Buffy linkstrom."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)