Recently in the Middle East, for instance, information leaked out of areas of conflict via moblogging (blogging on the move, often using mobile phones to transfer the blogs to the internet). Now, we can follow people who are liveblogging from events of all sorts. Then, sites like Twitter introduced the concept of microblogging (writing very short blogs). So, for instance, we had blogs (quickly shortened from the more formal ‘weblogs’). This is all increasingly clever stuff, as is the progression from the search engine to the decision engine, which aims to use sophisticated profiling to direct us to the information we need.Īgain and again we see the invention of a word to describe a new technological phenomenon being creatively adapted to cater for all its later permutations. Geo-targeted applications such as those used in geosocial networking use information about the location of their users to provide relevant services. Games developers have given us augmented reality, a mixture of real and computer-generated images, and immersive reality which gives the impression that the gamer is actually taking part in the imaginary scene. Computers and their related fields such as gaming and social networking are, not surprisingly, among the most fertile generators of new words words which range from the technical to the merely descriptive to the innovatively humorous.
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