Word Of The Week

The Wild Wild Web has added many new and colorful terms and phrasess to our ever evolving and vibrant English language. Some will pass into disuse and obscurity rather quickly, while others may become cliches, enduring long after their origin and initial meaning has past into the mists of collective memory.
Truthfully, the former will probably be the fate of the newest web inspired word to come to my attention.
Wednesday, during my weekly gathering with fellow cartoonists at a local coffee shop, we become, as often happens, the object of the curiosity of some of our fellow patrons. Seems they were there for a "tweet-up", aka, a "meet-up" organized through the auspices of the hot social networking site of the moment, Twitter.
As I say, "tweet-up" probably won't make it into the OED. After all, Twitter is the big thing now, but something else will come along in a few months, or more likely weeks or even days, that will make Twitter "so 2009".
Speaking however, of formerly trendy social networking sites, I felt this might be a good time to remind you all of the Facebook Wasted Potential Group. Join now!

- Posted by wastedpotential on 14 Jun 2009 07:44 am    -   0 comments