Never Underestimate The Buzziness Of Buzz

Last week the word-trend group, Global Language Monitor, released its annual survey of words from television that had an impact on the language. Among television’s top buzzwords of the year were both “Truthiness” and “Wikiality” — two of the words popularized by political satirist Stephen Colbert on his TV show “The Colbert Report”.

This week will see the release of the year’s top internet buzzwords and fortunately we have obtained an early look at the list as a New Dark Ages exclusive. The irony of us being the first to report some of the year’ s biggest internet buzzwords is the fact that our site was actually quite integral in creating said buzz.

Among the top buzzwords on the wacky world webring (the intranets) were “Craighead” and “Blogs on a Blog” which both scored very highly, as did “Lance Bass is GAY” and “Sam Craighead: International Blogging Superstar”. The term “Cut and Paste” was somewhat of a surprise, as was “Joshy” which is an expression used to illustrate a sense of being similar to an alcohol-induced blackout. Symptoms include a degradation or complete loss of all motor function, voice-level control and tact. For example, you could say: “Man, last night after midnight I got all kinds of joshy and Lance Bass is GAY.”

Look for the complete list of this year’s top internet buzzwords to be released via yahoo.com sometime later this week. Tell’em you heard it here first on The New Dark Ages!