Colbert Vs. Wikipedia

Today we covered common internet tools. Search engines, Remote access, Dynamic web interactions and Sharing resources on the Internet.

Well, besides Google, my other favorite internet tools has got to be Wikipedia. I depend on Wikipedia most of the time for my school research or utilize it to gain an in-depth explanation of things I am unaware of. I find it to be an extremely insightful and a reliable tool and I am often unaware as to why my lecturers refuse to allow us to cite materials off Wikipedia.

That was until I saw this hilarious video of Stephen Colbert, a comedian which I love, dissing Wikipedia. This is his video, it may give you a whole new perspective to Wikipedia. Enjoy!

The Oxford Killer

Last week I blogged about the proliferation of slangs and abbreviations associated with social networking. This week, I am going to talk about the dictionary who is going to give Oxford dictionary a run for its money! The Twitter

Dictionary! Twitter dictionary contains words that are commonly used on twitter or the invention of new words that

involves the word 'tweet' or as Twitter users call it "twerminoogy: twitter terminology.

1: Tweetless: Meant to describe someone who is speechless.

2: Attwaction: Attraction between two twitter users.

3: Dweet: A tweet that has been sent by a drunk user.

4: Mistweet: To describe a tweet that a user regrets sending after.

5: Retweet: Repetition of a tweet that has been posted by another user.

6: Tweeple: Twitter users, people who use twitter.

7: Tweetaholic: Term to describe someone who has an addiction to twitter.

8: Tweetroduce: Describe a situation where one user introduces one follower to another.

9: Ztwitt: To tweet extremely fast.

10: Twettiquette: Twitter Etiquette.

I don't know what you have to say about this, but I know what I have to say; Those Twits!

Social Networking and Online Community

With the invention of social networking comes the invention of 'Chat-Slang', Chat slang refers to the abbreviations used over social networking to make your sentences more interesting. Though I belong to the generation who coined such terms, I must say I haven't full mastered all of them. Here are a few examples:

1. TAFN ( That's all for now )

2. TBC ( To be continued )

3. SCNR ( Sorry could not resist )

4. SASB ( Sobbing and sniffling bitterly )

5. LOL ( Laughing out loud ) this is the most common term.

6. GTG ( Got to go )

7. SPST ( Same place same time )

8. MACINTOSH ( Most Applications Crash, If Not, The Operating System Hangs ) Bet you didn't know that! You thought it was a brand didn't you! haha.

What's annoying is that sometimes I can get a messages saying: "LOL SCNR. Okay TAFN GTG CUNT, SPST."

& when I receive something like that my immediate thought was, what the hell, did he just use a vulgarity on me. But actually what he meant to say was ( Laughing Out Loud, Sorry Could Not Resist. Okay, Got To Go, That's All For Now, See[C] You[U], Next Tuesday, Same Place Same Time ). Seriously?!

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