Twitchnews
June 3, 2005
The terms never caught on.
Now I have a identified a phenomenon that needs a clever catch phrase to make it sing.
In this time of 24 hour news channels, personal web portals, aggregating news feeds, and viral memes spreading via email, instant messaging, message boards, and blog sites, there isn't much time between you and your friends becoming aware of a given news item. They most likely listen, watch, and subscribe to the same things you do. Before, when talking about some new thing, parties in the know spent a good part of the conversation describing the thing to parties not. Now, everyone you talk to knows what you know, and they learned it when you did. So conversations go like this:
I need a word for this phenomenon (and bags too). I kind-of like "twitchnews" to describe the fast spreading news, but I need a word for the stillborn conversations twitchnews causes. Please advise.
* My apologies for paraphrasing the phrase "to coin a phrase"
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In this time of 24 hour news channels, personal web portals, aggregating news feeds, and viral memes spreading via email, instant messaging, message boards, and blog sites, there isn't much time between you and your friends becoming aware of a given news item. They most likely listen, watch, and subscribe to the same things you do. Before, when talking about some new thing, parties in the know spent a good part of the conversation describing the thing to parties not. Now, everyone you talk to knows what you know, and they learned it when you did. So conversations go like this:
"Hey. You read about the North Korean--"
"--Cloning thing? Yeah."
"In Slash--"
"--dot? Yeah."
I need a word for this phenomenon (and bags too). I kind-of like "twitchnews" to describe the fast spreading news, but I need a word for the stillborn conversations twitchnews causes. Please advise.
* My apologies for paraphrasing the phrase "to coin a phrase"
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