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Webschmertz

Jeg ville rigtig gerne ha’ været den der fandt på udtrykket ‘webschmertz’ - informationssyge, eller fornemmelsen af at have spredt sig for tyndt på et indviklet net af web-tjenester, der efterhånden er blevet uoverskueligt og hyperkomplekst.

Desværre er Rich Cummins kommet mig i forkøbet. Æv.

Amplify’d from www.driftline.org
Examples of newly coined words—please send yours! Here are four of mine. —Rich Cummins, ed. Webweltanschauung: a wide world web view of things; associative, hypertextual; the awareness that one thing exists only to lead to another, intuitive. Webschmertz: information sickness, the angst felt by the hyper-textualized. E-Venue: an associative offramp from the information superhighway. Webgeist: the spirit of the Web, which, at the moment, is wide-open, naive, and democratic.
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See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/in14

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