Dec
26
New York Times: buzzwords of 2007
“Tumblelog” makes it! Other highlights include:
- Gorno - I’ve only previously heard it called “torture porn”, but a portmanteau of gore/porn makes sense too.
- Bacn - not a new one for those of us who live online, but a good word nonetheless. Although I’m able to reduce a lot of the bacn I receive by signing up to RSS feeds instead for the same updates. Consequently, “the Internet” almost begins and ends at Google Reader for me these days.
- FTW - after the infamous (and brilliant) Make Love, Not Warcraft South Park episode that made frequent use of the phrase “pwned!”, surely it’s only a matter of time until this crops up in the cartoon.
One of the only truly great “looking back at 2007”-style articles that I’ve read.
(via asprettyasasong)