As the Networked World continues to define and influence the business environment, there is a need, evolving in parallel, for language to describe the new memes. The website Wordspy, which came to my attention courtesy of my friend Elif Beall of Brand Neutral, does a great job of crawling the web for fresh lexicon. As a longtime Thesaurus junkie with a Scrabble habit, I found Wordspy to be a very cool resource. So maybe a Scrabbler can’t score with words like ‘requel’ (a film that shares subject matter with previous films in a series) or ’staycation’ (a stay-at-home vacation). There’s a river of language flowing through the Networked World. Wordspy helps keep it fresh.

Wordspy inspired me to coin a few words myself, to describe concepts and behaviors that currently (that I know of) have no word of their own: (more…)