37signals.com — Our industry is addicted to bulls**t buzzwords. Everyone’s always implementing or enabling or optimizing or leveraging. There are endless value streams, efficiencies, solutions, infrastructures, and enterprises. But people who abuse buzzwords don’t sound smart. They sound like they are trying to sound smart. Big difference.
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lj535iSep 27, 2006
How about "crafting"? e.g. "crafting legislation on net neutrality".Just thinking of the word makes my skin crawl.
neily43Sep 27, 2006
Good call! :-)
zdigglerSep 27, 2006
Web 2.0 = Buzz people use it seem they just graduated from html class. Should Current Year Webpage Style. 2006 style webpage like how digg look. WiFi = buzz who ever use that word don't know a thing about wireless networking.Ajax = Buzz word, should be called like background codeing or something. Wost of them is BLOG! should like a fat retard just puked or something. Web Log what!? should be diaries! I'm not cool enough to come up with cooler name for that one. I just called! Mypage.
kristovSep 27, 2006
If we said "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML" would that be a buzzword? Or is it just a buzzword because we dared use the shortened version?
macmichael01Sep 27, 2006
Finally! An article that describes it all. Based on my educational experiences, I have found individuals who tried to complete a degree in computer science and end up failing because they lack the skills and/or abilities that the proclaimed themselves as having. The people that I have found who seem to know something about anything, are those people who are aren't the first to brag or boast about something they barely understand. Having an understanding for what buzzwords may mean, will help you sound intelligent at a c**ktail party but doesn't constitute you as being an intelligent being. Technical individuals use too much jargon and over half don’t have a clue to what it means. Most nods their heads yes in recognition to terms used but rarely have a concept of. This article does a great job in accurately defining most technical minded individuals who speak of words without first thinking of their meanings.
nogoodnamesleftSep 27, 2006
@perogi21; true, but we can still hate those inane tossers. :-)Personally, I find the expression "think outside the box" the most ironic of all. A more inside-the-box use of language spouted by like minds I doubt you'll find.
allatti2dSep 27, 2006
Tell me about it... that's the worst, and I refuse to use the word.I created a myspace last month (God I hate myspace) to appease my kids, and here's the opening paragraph to my first entry:"Here's my first... it's not a weBLOG, it's an interneTJournal, my TJ. I never did like the word Blog! Maybe because it sounds like "Blah" and "Blob" and "Clog", not the best sounding words. Online Diary, Internet Journal, Web Log, E-Notes, whatever. I digress"