'Blog', 'cookie', 'wiki' top list of hated Internet words: poll

[KG_Panzerschreck]

'Blog', 'cookie', 'wiki' top list of hated Internet words: poll
Thu Jun 21, 8:06 AM ET

LONDON (AFP) - "Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday.

Topping the list of words most likely to make web users "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard" was folksonomy, a term for a web classification system.

"Blogosphere", the collective name for blogs or online journals, was second; "blog" itself was third; "netiquette", or Internet etiquette, came fourth and "blook", a book based on a blog, was fifth.

"Cookie", a file sent to a user's computer after they visit a website, came in ninth, while "wiki", a collaborative website edited by its readers, was tenth.

British pollsters YouGov questioned 2,091 adults earlier this month for the poll commissioned by the Lulu Blooker Prize, a literary award for books, which released the results in a statement.

Earlier this month, the growing use of words inspired by cyberspace was highlighted when the Collins English Dictionary announced that a string of them would be included in their ninth edition.

These included "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 dictionary's compilers monitor the use of English through a 2.5 billion word database of websites, magazines, books, journals, newspapers and broadcast transcripts to help them decide if new words should be included.

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[KG_Panzerschreck]

I dont know about those Brits. I always liked the word Wikipedia, lol.

But i do hate anything with "Blog" in it.

[KG_AGCent]

Though the name is silly there is a ton of "blogs" out there that have a ton of great content including writings, articles, opinion pieces, movie shorts, etc. that are both entertaining and informative.

Here are a couple of my favorites;

Utter Mutterings
http://uttermuttering.blogspot.com/index.html

The Anchoress
http://theanchoressonline.com/

Eject! Eject! Eject!
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/

[KG_AirborneBob]

I dunno, the word blog reminds me of what happens when I eat too many enchiladas with pico de gallo!