Book recommendations, including a collection of short stories inspired by dictionaries, and a techno-thriller for teens. Or, how about novels with an upbeat message? Publishers call this genre up lit. Plus, a clergyman ponders an arresting phrase in...
A listener from Bethel, Maine, calls with a riddle she heard at summer camp: The maker doesn’t want it, the buyer doesn’t use it, and the user never sees it. What is it? She also stumps the hosts with a puzzle: What adjective requires...
mullet strategy n.— «The biggest sites on the web are all embracing the “mullet strategy”—business up front, party in the back! User generated content is all the rage but most of it totally sucks. That is why sites like...
viewser n. a viewer and user of digital or online media that combine interactivity with traditional broadcast entertainment. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
exformation n.— «A Danish writer, Tor Norretranders, invented a term for this in his book The User Illusion: exformation. Exformation is short for “explicitly discarded information,” the information you strip out of a message...
RFE n.— «We keep a catalog of good ideas called “RFEs” (requests for enhancement).» —“The PVRBlog Interview: Ten Questions with TiVo’s Director of User Experience, Margret Schmidt” by Margret...