a popular subculture that deconstructs serious themes to entertain people with comedy effects... the two characters 'è' meaning 'evil' and 'gǎo' meaning 'work' combine to describe a phenomenon that is characterized by humor, revelry, subversion, grass-root spontaneity, defiance of authority, mass participation and moot-media high-tech.
These multi-layered discs can have both Blu-ray and HD DVD layers on it, rendering the format wars pretty much moot from a media standpoint.
He also kick-started the modern revival of the Oxfordian movement by adopting a policy of seeking publicity through moot court trials, media debates, television, and later the Internet, including Wikipedia.
The possibility of a Worcestershire combined authority, focusing on four key areas of "transport, infrastructure planning, skills development and land planning" has been mooted by local media.
Not only has the confusion over where official power lies been partly resolved, but efforts by anti-Morsi forces to push the military into deposing him (increasingly vocally expressed in the media) now seem moot.
Whether it merited the amount of bullying it attracted on Twitter and on other social media became a moot point because as soon as the attention grew and the cruel comments snowballed, the Daily Mail – far from protecting one of its writers – put the article front and centre on its website.
Other researchers say it's a Sony insider, while the hackers themselves demanded The Interview be pulled from cinemas only after media reports had mooted the North Korean connection.
He warns that the evidence collected on social media websites may be moot in a court of law depending on the jurisdiction's rules or privacy legislation making things complicated.
The idea of micro-payments for journalism has been mooted for as long as digital media has existed, and largely rejected as unworkable or unacceptable to the new generation of readers.
After spending most of his life tackling the world of digital media, 4chan and Canv.as founder Chris "moot" Poole has gone back to basics with a gamified iPad drawing app called DrawQuest.
On the plus side, the massive success of social media and its drivers has rendered moot the criticism that these issues and personalities are not worthy of the enterprise or indeed any serious pursuit of one's time.
