Buyerwall
buyerwall, n., BYE-uhr-wal: The barrier separating the non-paying web surfer from a site’s premium content. e.g. – “I’d link to that asinine editorial in the Vancouver Province, but it’s behind the buyerwall.”Half-RSSed
half-RSSed, adj., haff-AHRST: A blog whose RSS feed offers only headlines and not the body text you really want to read.Do you have… Google hegemony?
Google hegemony, n.: the degree to which a specific person dominates the results of a Google search on their own name. So if you search Google and nine of the first ten references are specifically about you (and not someone else with your name), then you have Google...Have you RAM lapped yet?
ram lapping, n. – The point at which your computer gets an amount of RAM equal to the size of the hard drive on the first computer you owned.Introducing the cascading upgrade
The senior designer gets a spankin’ new dual-processor G5 Macintosh. Which means the junior designer gets her old G4 Quicksilver. The receptionist gets his old eMac. And takes the old Bondi blue iMac home for the kids. This office has just experienced a…...
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Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
