Friday, 22 June 2007

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

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

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