Recommended Reading
by Dan Todd
Essential reading for me is the Life Hacker blog published by Gawker Media. I’ve learned over time that this site is an excellent source of both productivity improving tips and of dietary fiber.
A recent article, “Fighting the Corporate Bull with Bullfighter” is an excellent example of both the quality of information and the temperament of the contributors, editors and their readers. In essence, the entry relates to some Windows only software which acts as a Jargon Corrector, Cliché Remover and Better Word Suggester. A Marketing-speak to English translating tool, if you will. A fantastic idea, if you ask me.
A reader, Zyada asks:
Wouldn’t this be like virus software? You’d have to download a BS update file every couple of months.
To which I respond : Going forward, over time, the lexicon must be updated to facilitate continued user engagement on an ongoing basis.
I could probably help to write the Academic Edition. While you’re busy blue-skying value-added software update best practices, I’ll be employing a meso-theoretical analytic lens to examine the multiple ways in which intellectual paradigms come to invoke layered linguistic conventions that counter-intuitively contribute to a general syncretism of cultures of bullshit over time.
We could make millions.
March 17th, 2006 at 12:20 pm #