So while “tagging” my “blog” I was thinking about the growing phenomenon of “folksonomies” and thought that I would update the “wiki” with a new definition and I should search the “blogosphere” to see what other people were thinking and maybe I could create a “mash-up” of a site like this as long as it obeyed acknowledged “netiquette”.

Is this just bullshit to you? Don’t worry; it’s official according to a poll of 2091 people in Britain by market research company YouGov “Blog”, “netiquette”, “cookie” and “wiki” have been voted among the most irritating words used by geeks in relation to the Internet. Number one most annoying is “folksonomies” - which is the collective naming of web items as opposed to a taxonomy which is the naming conventions of one. Still confused? Check out my article last month on What is Web 2.0?

According to the poll the second most annoying is “blogosphere” - the online world of blogs (which came third), followed by “netiquette”, or internet etiquette, and “blook”, a book based on a blog, coming in number five.

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