Heading the list of words likely to make users “wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard” was ‘folksonomy’, the idiot term for a web classification system.
The poll was conducted by UK pollster YouGov on behalf of the Lulu Blooker Prize, a literary award for internet-based books – ‘blooks’ for heaven’s sake – a prize that follows the well-worn Web 2.0 path of trading on the name of an established real-world entity.
The poll has been widely reported through the French press agency AFP, which said YouGov had polled 2,091 adults for the study.
‘Blogosphere’ was considered the second most irritating term, while ‘blog’ was third. ‘Netiquette’ was ranked fourth, while ‘blook’ rounded out the top five.
It is difficult to know how people decided between the top five, given they are all so bloody annoying.
There is more horror on the horizon. The Lulu Blooker Prize people are saying the first generation of “flooks” are well on the way (a flook being the idiot term for a film based on a blook).
Still, other words are proving useful. TwitterHead is a good one.
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