cleanskin n.— «The Times said that at least two of the men had just returned from Pakistan, but none were on the files of security services. This meant they were “cleanskins”—intelligence parlance for terrorists with no...
buyerwall n.— «buyerwall, n., BYE-uhr-wal: The barrier separating the non-paying web surfer from a site’s premium content. e.g.—”I’d link to that asinine editorial in the Vancouver Province, but it’s behind the buyerwall...
link condom n.— «Well, now that we know the three major SE’s have teamed up with various programmers of blogs to use a “nofollow” tag for links, it didn’t take long before someone coined the term “link condom...
staledate v.— «The NYT often does an extraordinary job of covering the facts, but it doesn’t matter a whit to posterity if a link to that job will staledate in a month.» —“Why do newspapers charge for yesterday’s news?” by...
blink n.— «It’s a short, one-sentence blog post + a link, à la Kottke remainders…. We’ll be using “blink” posts here at Copyfight to share links to articles, resources, and websites of interest that do not...
lipotourism n.— «Immigrants in New York City often develop and maintain commercial ties to their homelands. But this particular link, a dangerous version of what has come to be known as “lipotourism,” is one of the more...