{"id":2012,"date":"2008-09-22T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2008\/09\/22\/the_internet_le.html"},"modified":"2008-09-22T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:02:32","slug":"the_internet_le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2008\/09\/22\/the_internet_le.html","title":{"rendered":"the Internet Lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Berkman Center, a bunch of Fellows put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinternetlexicon.org\/Main_Page\">The Internet Lexicon<\/a> (spearheaded by none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/2008\/09\/22\/the-internet-lexicon\/\">The Great David Weinberger<\/a>).  The Internet Lexicon is &#8220;a wiki-based list of Webby people whose names are treated as if they were definable words.&#8221;  To make me giggle uncomfortably, someone (presumably David) defined me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>boyd, danah (v) to provide an environment for floating new ideas. E.g., &#8220;Sociologists were boyd by the research showing the class differences between Facebook and MySpace.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some other entertaining ones:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>shirky, clay (n) A tool for opening the most securely locked objects. E.g., &#8220;We&#8217;ll never get past this door&#8230;unless someone has brought a shirky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>wu, tim (v) to attempt to persuade while staying strictly neutral.<\/p>\n<p>zuckerman, ethan (n) One who pays equal attention to all species, no matter how exotic or unfamiliar. E.g., &#8220;Who takes care of the zoo? Why, the zuckerman, of course!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>zittrain, jonathan (n) a passenger locomotive conveying one in a direction over which one may be powerless. E.g., &#8220;I wish I could stand and pull the emergency brake cord to prevent this vehicle from plunging over a cliff, but it is, alas, a zittrain.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And of course, one cannot forget David:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>weinberger, david (n) a delicious sandwich that makes sense of countless miscellaneous ingredients in an entertaining fashion. E.g., &#8220;The acclaimed chef threw up his hands and let his customers combine his mis-en-place, venison and precious truffles into fantastic weinbergers.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>::giggle:: Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/onewebday.org\/\">One Web Day!!<\/a>  Cheers to the Internet and its role in shaping society!  ::clink::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Berkman Center, a bunch of Fellows put together The Internet Lexicon (spearheaded by none other than The Great David Weinberger). The Internet Lexicon is &#8220;a wiki-based list of Webby people whose names are treated as if they were definable words.&#8221; To make me giggle uncomfortably, someone (presumably David) defined me: boyd, danah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-links","tag-onewebday-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}