I think I've seen this referenced before, but the sentiment is the same—Globetechnology- Some Internet jargon causes confusion: Study. Like any group we have not only our own rules and norms, but our own specialized terms too. Doctors, lawyers, any professional group has terms and acronyms that are used to speed discussion and stand for complex ideas. So, we're not going to stop using terms like RSS and XML-RPC? No, of course not. In the great scheme of things what is going to happen is books and MSM (main stream media) articles are going to come out with titles like: "The Blogosphere for the rest of us" and "Blogs, blags, blugs? Huh?" explaining our unique terms to the world.
Geeks have always been accused of creating terms just to keep the rest of the world off-balance and guess what we really mean. One of my favorites from my tech support days was the "eye dee ten tee" error (ID10T) ... "oh having trouble with Outlook again, hmm, sounds like that ID10T error again ... ". Another is "hits" for web metrics. According to my friend Chris at Telus, "hits" really stands for "how idiots track success". So maybe we should cool it just a little, let the world catch up with us ...
Naw ;-).
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