The Lede Blog: The Lede: Some Puzzled by Word of the Year
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Readers of Merriam-Webster selected one with two numbers for letters: w00t.
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In a new post on his blog, Kore Nordmann takes a look at a feature that's been around a long time (first introduced in a message board application) - BBCodes.   The discussion on my blog post "Do not use regular expressions for parsing" ended in a discussion about BBcodes in general. I just used them as an example to demonstrate why it it is impossible to parse such a language with regular expressions - and mentioned in a subclause, that I don't see any sense in using them at all.   He looks at some of the myths surrounding them and their use (more secure, easier to use, safer than HTML) and gives some reasons for making teh choice of HTML over them.
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I find it telling that the "progressive" movement does not define itself in terms of destination or principle, but in terms of direction. I think we are in a window right now, but that window is closing.
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Why do some words evolve rapidly, while others hardly evolve at all?
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Blog Declared Word of the Year  US Dictionary Merriam-Webster&rsquo;s has announced that the word &#8220;blog&#8221; is their word of the year in their annual pronouncement of the Top 10 words of 2004, which also bizarrely included the words cicada and defenestration. Webster&rsquo;s defines a blog as &#8220;a Web site that contains ...
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We don&#39;t have to wait another month to know that ``blog&#39;&#39; is the word of the year. So says Springfield-based Merriam-Webster, which tallied queries to its online dictionary.
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The most requested online definition this year was &quot;blog,&quot; Merriam-Webster says. Editors had planned to include &quot;blog&quot; in the 2005 annual update of both the print and online versions of Merriam-Webster&#39;s 11th
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The beginning of the year is traditionally a time to look back, and, for the brave of heart, to make a few predictions looking forward.  Lacking the requisite bravery, I'll just quote something that the Economist wrote recently: Rejoice: the embrace of âopennessâ by firms that have grown fat on closed, proprietary technology is something weâll see more of in 2008.  Now, had this "fearless prediction" been made a year ago, I would have been impressed, because 2007 has turned out to be the year when everyone, it seems, wants to be open. read more
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Will "landslide" win by a landslide? Will "sectarian", "vendetta" or "decider" be named 2006's word of the year?
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A few things you may not have caught in last week's news.
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Merriam-Webster set the blogosophere buzzing this week with its announcement that the word âblogâ was among the most looked-up words of the year. The curious hordes were likely puzzled, however, by Merriam-Websterâs definition: âa Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks.â
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In 1904 it was "hip." In 2004 it's "chav." In between, there was "racism," "cyborg," "punk" and "9/11." They are all words chosen by a book that charts the creation of new words over the past 100 years.
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People are asked to submit their favourite word to highlight the need for universal  education.
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This may be one of the most overused terms out there.
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The mixed results in its latest earnings report may get lost in the wording.
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BLOG, a contraction of the term âweb log,â is the latest geekspeak to enter Merriam-Websterâs Top-10 list of words for 2004.
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The year brought many new things into our lives, but they also entailed some leave-taking. Here is a sampling of things soon to be, as they say, eclipsed by events.