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Monthly Archives: June 2006

Backchannel

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

I was relatively late in learning of the term “backchannel”. It describes a phenomena that I have been fumbling to explain to people as being *one* of several reasons for them to use instant messaging (IM) as a regular tool in the office. Whereas the term backchannel seems to be most often used to describe [...]

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Beginning, middle, end

Saturday, June 10, 2006

In the early days of the web, buzzword coinage relied on prefixes. Add an “e” or an “i” to any word or phrase and you had yourself a brand new business to flog.
i-widgets
e-grommits
A few years later- the infix became the basis for the buzz-worthy. The numeral “2″ became de rigueur.
b2c
b2b
fan2team
farmer2market
dog2vomit
And now it is the turn [...]

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