Saint Aardvark's Journal: Stupid, stupid Internet

Up until today, I would've told you that the stupidest thing I'd read on the Internet was a white paper titled "Is PowerPoint An E-Learning Solution?" But OMG ponies, the bar has been raised.

Precisely why a made-up word making it to Google should be considered news is never really explored. Wired's whole-hearted gushing about someone who "has registered freedbacking domains and plans to aggregate freedbacking comments on a new website next week" is also a nice touch -- way to accelerate the IPO! Finally, you've got the thoughtfully-placed-last obligatory OTOH about how "consumer ignorance and laziness could also keep the value of the suggestions low."

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that is one hell of a dumb word

[eglamkowski]

I sure won't be using it. And if I ever hear anybody else use it, I'll smack 'em.

argh

[Alioth]

Just like 'blogosphere' is such an awful buzzword, you can bet it won't be long before 'freedback' is declared cromulent and it appears as the latest awful marketspeak driven buzzword that appears on gushing marketing material.