Quick Thought: speak like a regular person
There’s a post over at medgadget about how searching google for “vaccination” turns up mostly anti-vaccination “moonbats”. One of the reasons is the medical industry’s preference for the word “immunization”.
So doctors say “immunization” while regular people and moonbats use “vaccination”. The lesson here is in a world run by Google, if you don’t speak like regular people, regular people will never hear your voice–even if you’re a doctor.
January 4th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Yes, and this goes for any kind of jargon or insider speak as well, no?
January 6th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
the evolution of semantics, esp conceptual, needs to be tracked. the nature of each word is controled by the context it’s used in. check out this visualization of semantic “paths”…..
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=303&index=52&domain=Knowledge%20Networks
January 6th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
oh yeah, think if you combined that visualization with an interface like thisssssss……
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han
intuitive movement through and interaction with informatio
January 20th, 2007 at 7:19 am
interesting, its the “google ergo sum” paradigm
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Excuse me… but it seems like your last post was over two weeks ago. Could you please post something more up-to-date? Perhaps along the lines of closet making?
Thanks, from your friendly readers.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:30 am
and the impact of said closet making on Home Depot?
January 25th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Haha, yes closet making… coming right up…