His Web site, robertreich.org, is actually a Tumblr blog, or "a Tumblr" or "tumblelog" in online jargon.
Though perhaps the greater boost came in 1992 with the sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson's cyberpunktilious novel "Snow Crash," where he invented his own online jargon.
The explanation that the gadget was named after its supposed inventor, Don Gall, was so egregiously false that the company happily owned up to it as a marketing ploy when pressed by Eric S. Raymond, who maintains the Jargon File, an online lexicon of hacker slang.
Eric Raymond, a leading open-source advocate, writing in his online "Jargon File," described the politics of the archetypal open-source programmer, whom he calls J. Random Hacker, as "vaguely liberal-moderate, except for the strong libertarian contingent, which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely".
That is, $1 billion in Microsoft Points ("space bucks" in derisive, online jargon).
Their knowledge was gained through a combination of face-to-face sessions (information from the formal teaching methods and case studies) and online tools (jargon based word games and tests).
Finra's consumer investing tools appear online amid a jargon-laden array of communications to and about its members.
My favorite character, though, is Mac (for whom "Youth slang is my freedom song"), the ninth most prolific contributor to an online compendium of hip jargon.
Welcome to first weekly installment of '60 Seconds of Social Media' where we explain the mysteries of the online world, detangle tech jargon, and highlight some intriguing trends.
LIKE much else on the Internet, online advertising is full of jargon.
