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Sent via CrackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15 Mar 2007 19:44:18 To:videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: New words for the vlogging world?? In Cincinnati Ohio, you are still just a geek, trust me.... (talking about myself here) Heath http://batmangeek7.: <http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com> blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@: <mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com, "Robert Scoble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Geek is the new rock star. > > > > In Silicon Valley we celebrate our geekiness. > > > > Robert > > > > _____ > > From: videoblogging@: <mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogging@: <mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of humancloner1997 > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:55 AM > To: videoblogging@: <mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com > Subject: [videoblogging] New words for the vlogging world?? > > > > I know wse've had spirited debates on "vlogging vs videoblogging" on > this list. I prefer the former but sometimes use the latter when I > think the listener/reader might not understand 'vlogging'. > > A friend who is somewhat hostile to my focus on Internet video called > me a "vididiot" yesterday. He even suggested I might be a "vidiact" > (meaning a video addict). > > I had to admit I lived in a "vidcentric" world and participated from > time to time in what might be called the "vidocracy" of the Yahoo > discussion group. > > All languages grow through the creation of new words. Time Magazine > created the term "yuppie" several years ago. "Fanvid" is an accepted > term on the Internet. > > My friend worried that I might someday become a "geek". My response > was that I was a slow learner but hoped I might achieve that 'status' > in twenty or more years. > > His response was that "geek" was not a label to be embraced, that it > came from an old carnival term which meant "the one who bit off the > head of a live chicken". > > anyone have any thoughts and/or suggestions for new terms we might > start using in this new world of videoblogging? > > Randolfe (Randy) Wicker > Hoboken, NJ 07030 > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/hOt0.A/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
