4th
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user, semantic, click, laptop, crystal, skull…
If you’ve just come here from The Big Word Project, you may have clicked one (or another) word from the above. After reading about this new viral dictionary, I decided to spend $50 (maybe more at last count) and see what comes of it. So, if you’re clicking through to this blog, please leave a comment and let me know. I’m curious to see what kind of click throughs could come from something like this.
The general idea behind the site is that you can choose to redefine any word in the Oxford English Dictionary with a link to your site. The cost? $1 per letter. No phrases or proper nouns allowed.
Here’s my rational for a few of my words:
user, semantic: User interface design and standards-based development is my living, so these were actually fitting.
click: Why not? To think of the number of times I’ve been strong armed into linking up “click here” against my better judgement, I just had to buy it.
laptop: I read yet another post about the Macbook Air.
crystal & skull: What can I say? Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was my motivation. I don’t think there is a bigger movie this summer…
