Thursday, March 27, 2008

Of new terms - blog, dooce and twitter

Do you know that you can get dooced for twittering in your blog? Interesting how new words are coined every day. Dooced basically means getting fired.

Anyway, I tried looking up their meanings from some online dictionaries. Cannot find the word dooce but there is a definition of twitter though not in the sense meant here. Twitter is this little Web 2.0 latest Silicon Valley toy that geeks are using to keep in touch with their friends. Simply, it's IM for the big boys and gals.

Some call it microblogging. Once posted cannot edit...only can delete. But you can know immediately who your followers are...and the icing on the cake or maybe this is the scary part, updates can be sent to your mobile since they have a 140 characters limit. See the similarity with sms? Now I wonder whether they (mobile operators) charge for receiving. So with that, can you think of countless possibilities for this little new toy?? I already can.....

2 comments:

Ning said...

Om my... Sounds like FUN!! I wanna do microblogging!

AJ7 said...

Microblogging??? This means 24/7 stuck to the phone....and maybe an astronomical telco bill! 8)

Broken?

Education in doldrums... An already broken education system given a really hard whack by Covid-19.  I used to read about pandemics, that a b...