multi-plat-fornication

multi-plat-fornication
 n.— «Mr. Toffler has a plan in motion to upgrade the network for the age of digital convergence, a strategy he has been known to refer to as “multi-plat-fornication”: an all-out effort to deliver MTV content to every form of technology imaginable, from mobile phones to digital cable to a Web-based on-demand channel called MTV Overdrive.» —“Every Network That Rises Must Converge” by Dave Itzkoff New York Times Aug. 28, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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