CONFLATE (verb): combine two or more texts or ideas into one; derivatives — conflated (adjective) and conflation (noun)
SOURCE: Being Peter Kim blog. Peter Kim is a social computing guru out of Austin, TX.
“Stowe Boyd says that I’ve gotten into a conflated muddle with thinking on why social media isn’t socialism.”
USE IN A SENTENCE: The urban crisis conflates a number of different social and economic issues.
PHISHING (noun) - Phishing is a criminal online act in which the perpetrator uses email or instant messaging to obtain a victim’s private financial information for purposes of identity theft. The phishers often pose as popular social web sites such as You Tube and e-Bay and direct users to a fake website that looks almost identical to the legitimate site. There, users are asked to update personal information, such as passwords and bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has on file. The web site, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the user’s information.
The first recorded use of the term “phishing” was made in 1996. Phishing, also referred to as brand spoofing or carding, is a variation on “fishing,” the idea being that bait is thrown out with the hopes that while most will ignore the bait, some will be tempted into biting.
SOURCE: I came upon the word phishing in a comment linked to a blog posting entitled “10 Traits of Highly Effective Twitter Users” posted by TwiTip. And no, phishing is not one of the traits.
USE IN A SENTENCE: Fortunately, Rose has never fallen victim to phishing because she is particularly guarded about her financial and personal data.
In honor of my mother, Damaris Sayce, a retired librarian who passed on her love of words to me, I am initiating the Word of the Day on the Talk blog. Each day, I’ll post a new word, give the definition and use it in a sentence. If I pick up the word from something I’m reading, I’ll feature the material in which I found it.
I encourage you to comment, submit your own words, or chastise me if I’m using the word incorrectly. Here it goes:
STENTORIAN- (adjective) loud and powerful projection of a person’s voice.
“Compared to this kind of personal, intimate, knowlegable, and highly engaged voice, which is emerging bottom-up on the Internet today, top-down corporate communications come across as stale and stentorian - the boring, authoritarian voice of command and control.”
From the preface written by Christopher Locke to “The Cluetrain Manifesto.”
I thought this word was particularly fitting for the launch of the Word of the Day, since Talk is dedicated to helping its clients “find their voice.” Do you have a stentorian voice? If so, post a comment below!
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