[Air-l] Poll on annoying Internet neologisms

[Dan Prives]

There's this story going around about a supposed poll to determine the
most annoying word produced by the Internet.

I found it here (AFP -> Yahoo news):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/tc_afp/britaininternetlanguage

and here (Telegraph.co.uk, Sally Peck) (excerpt below, if you care
about the results of this alleged poll)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/22/wiphone222.xml

However, there's no mention of this poll on the YouGov.com web site,
nor on lulu.com nor or lulublookerprize.com.

Did this poll really happen?

Regards,
Dan Prives
Where Most Needed
The Charity Industry Blog
http://www.wheremostneeded.org


The YouGov poll, in which 2,000 web users voted for their least
favourite word spawned by the internet, celebrates the second annual
Blooker Prize, which honours the year's best "blook", or book based on
a blog. The 10 most irksome words spawned by the internet:

1. Folksonomy: an ad hoc online classification system
2. Blogosphere: the collective term for the online blogging community
3. Blog: an online journal or web-log
4. Netiquette: internet etiquette
5. Blook: a book based on a blog
6. Webinar: an online seminar
7. Vlog: a video blog
8. Social networking: the use of the web to form "virtual communities"
9. Cookie: a text file stored on your computer from a website you visited
10.(tie) Wiki: a collaborative website in which multiple authors add,
remove and edit content
  Podcast: a downloadable audio file
  Avatar: an icon used to represent oneself online
  User-generated content: web content created by use