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CURATION: having to do with assembling pertinent information

August 12, 2010

One of the people I relate with on Facebook is a young man by the name of Jojo Malig, a journalist from the Philippines.  This week he introduced me to the term curation and sent me scrambling to the Internet to try to figure out what the word meant.  As a result, he exposed me [...]

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CYBERCHONDRIA: when an individual surfs the net in a frenzy of health anxiety. (UrbanDictionary.com, Sept. 24)

November 10, 2009

——————You have seen it happen. Maybe you have done it yourself. A person begins to experience symptoms of illness. Instead of calling a physician that person runs to the computer and pulls up a medical website. He or she punches in the symptoms (fever, rash, shortness of breath, etc.) and then reads furtively, relying upon [...]

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INTERFACE: a common boundary or intercommunication between systems, equipment, concepts, or human beings. (Dictionary.com)

October 25, 2009

I chose to follow the word interface because it is a good example of a fairly recently-created word that meant one thing when it was born, but has taken on a new meaning with continued use. There are a lot of these words in our language which we use all the time without thinking about [...]

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