If you’ve spent any amount of time on Plurk, you’ve probably been seeing lots of new terms being thrown around. These terms could be things like:
Plurkiverse
Plurkable
Plurkular
Plurksourcing
Applurkations
But what do all of these words mean? And where do they come from?
Before we begin, let’s talk about the title of this post.
Neolowhat?
Wikipedia says:
A neologism is a word, term, [...]
If you’re a member of the marketing world or feel fairly familiar with social media, you’ve probably heard of the term, ‘crowdsourcing’.
Wikipedia says:
Crowdsourcing is a newly coined term for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, usually leveraging [...]
After spending most of the day offline, I was going back through my timeline tonight looking to see what I’d missed when I spotted an interesting Plurk from Teeg (though aren’t all of her’s interesting?).
Also interesting was the fact that no one had responded to Teeg’s Plurk, though I’m guessing most went straight to the [...]
