I often complain to interviewers that 'weblog' is the least interesting of my many neologisms. Here's a sampling of others:
- meta-expressive (1974) = inauthentic, expressing an image rather than a reality
- noofog (1974) the stupefying side of the noosphere-- pressure to conform making us blind (cf negative intelligence, below)
- ron riddles (1975-friv) riddles where the answer is a portmanteau of two phrases eg 'TS Eliot Ness' (Who wrote 'Sweeney among the Untouchables'?) or 'The arm and hammer throw' (What's the intensest sport at the leper olympics?)
- priorating (no date) rating by priority
- [Greek letter phi], [Greek letter psi] (no date) philosophy, psychology (abbreviations)
- junk-food vegetarian (1977?) no meat in soda or potato chips
- filters, speeds, and scales (1978) three exercises for deepening understanding of any given phenomenon-- picture the world as pitch black except where the phenomenon supplies a bit of colored light (this directly led to the tree-of-life/worldtree visualisation); picture the phenomenon at microscopic scale, at macroscopic scale, slowed down and speeded up
- literary indications (1978) images from novels or other literature that capture some nuance of human behavior, i used to save these on index cards that i then sorted and re-sorted
- cybernetic psychology, robot wisdom (1979) a scientific methodology that builds from literary indications (qv) to computer simulations of realistic human behavior
- appublication (1979) making public
- pyschology, spychology (1979-friv) bad psychology, good psychology
- antimath (1979) a simple notation system for story-skeletons, based on comic strip conventions [more]
- cx. (no date) contrast (cf 'cf')
- lifelines (1984?) a cross between antimath and feynman diagrams, evolved into worldtree model [more]
- friv (1985) frivolous
- romantic psychology (1988) narrowly, the scientific study of romantic love; broadly, the complement of cognitive psychology [Solace]
- storycycle (1988?) compilation of literary indications into a (usually) cyclical monomyth [more]
- fractal-thicket indexing, semantic topology (1991) a generalisation of antimath that builds complex content by repeatedly creating 'cross-products' of any simple hierarchy with itself [more]
- usual stories (1992) a way to defuse AI's 'frame problem' by considering any content-node to imply the full usual storycycle of that content-item [more]
- task-savvy applications (1993) applications with enough a.i. to guess what you're trying to do [more]
- confabulating arranger (1994) a model for interactive fiction in which the past is created backwards [more]
- alt.music.alternative.female (1994) newsgroup [newgroup]
- misery pizza, misery burritos, etc (1994?) ersatz entrees using lowest-possible-cost ingredients: white bread, ketchup, american cheese food, pork'n'beans, etc
- the responsible party (1995) semifictitious 'conservative left' political party
- naive witness (1995) heuristic visualisation of unprejudiced guy-in-the-street [more]
- chase-down design (1995) writing webpages so they start by cutting-to-the-chase [more]
- parent test (1995) judging political candidates (etc) by whether you'd want them as parents [more]
- static a.i. (1995) knowledge representation [more]
- skeptical correctness (1995) jumping to conclusions based on 'scientific' prejudices [cite]
- self-knowledge horizon (1995) what alan watts called 'the taboo on knowing who we are' [more]
- AI complementarity principle (1995) the idea that an expert system capable of understanding a domain should equally be able to generate a simulation (or a vision sytem to generate an image) [more]
- pork'n'beans vegetarian (1995?) it's not enough pork to bother paying double for the vegetarian beans
- w3* (1996) trick for distinguishing search keywords from ordinary words [more]
- full-disclosure capitalism (1996) capitalism might not be so bad if businesses were fully transparent [more]
- negative intelligence (1996) internet phenomenon where bad ideas drive out good [more]
- philosophy lab (1996) the idea that philosophical ideas could theoretically be tested in an advanced computer simulation of human behavior [more]
- propanoia (1996-friv) the unfounded fear that a Usenet newsgroup's messages don't propagate to your site [cite]
- pride cycle (1997) the storycycle/monomyth behind Finnegans Wake-- hero sins, falls, rises via conformity or experiment [passim]
- hypertext lab (1997) the notion that web-design theorists ought to use their sites to experiment with new design ideas [more]
- elvis index (1997) search-engine popularity ranking normalised to standard term 'elvis' [more]
- weblog (1997) a log of interesting web readings in reverse chronological order
- ?* (1997?) uncertain. eg '?x' is short for 'x (?)' (after Herring)
- gotcha-links (1998?) web links that without warning entrap you in (eg) slow-launching helper apps like Acrobat [more] a special case that throws you out of your surf history is the ejection seat
- e-communication, e-video, e-audio, s-text, h-text, h-audio, h-video, p-text, p-video, p-audio (1998) electronic/spoken/handwritten/printed communication/audio/video/text [more]
- new game (1998) an approach to finnegans wake via close reading of manuscripts in the order they were written [more]
- liquid page (1998) later and more widely called 'liquid html' [more]
- xhtml (1998) my original proposal was better than what They ended up with [more]
- project-proposers anonymous (1998) 12-step group for people who have better ideas than follow-thru [more]
- nuppies (1999?) compulsive one-uppers [cite]
- iq infinity (1999?) heuristic for studying joyce-- that he knew everything
- en-passant linking (1999) web links that can only be detected by (eg) blue underlined text [more]
- one-layer web design (1999) making portals that flatten out all web resources so they're a single click away, by linking every useful subpage of a site, not just the main page [more]
- resource pages (1999) sifting thru all web resources on a given topic and linking all the best ones in an organised way (search engines should someday do this automatically) [more]
- mournography (1999) orgies of exploitative sentimentality after tragedies [cite]
- first-cut parser (1999) document-parser that finds a likeliest interpretation for each segment of a text [more]
- stripped-grapes web-design (2000?) tables of contents (etc) that link to subpages with no description but the page-title [more]
- url-hacking (2000) studying the structure of complex urls so you can customise them [more]
- content-centered web design (2000) web-design that foregrounds the content rather than the design (eg avoiding sidebars and other distractions) [more]
- text buttons (2000) a design philosophy that tries to minimise hard-to-read blue underlined linktext by isolating the link at the end of text, with a single word description, usually of its document type [more]
- hyperbolic linking (2000) topically closer pages should have more links on a given page [more]
- phat (2000) high-bandwidth (of webpages)
- information density (2001) eg 'faqs' are high density [more]
- text-blocks and separators (2001) alternative to uptight 'hierarchies of containers' model of text [more]
- minoan illuminati (2001) mostly tongue-in-cheek reconstruction of Bronze Age Crete, emphasizing their remarkable disdain for giant ego-monuments [more]
- jumpbar (2001) a row of offsite links at the top of a blog (or any page) so you can quickly jump elsewhere if there's nothing new there [more]
- mindwrestling (2001) ESP-based power-struggles [more]
- content stubs (2001) interface elements that can be expanded to reveal more content/choices (eg menus) [more]
- contemplation-factor (2001) how many calories does it take to contemplate something [more]
- html-junk (2002) webpage cruft [post]
- ToC-footers (2002) putting site-links at end of (one-column) document [more] rediscovered 2007 [blog]
- the Necessary Web (2002) just the faqs, sort of [more] [more]
- W3C secession (2002) top-down amateur a.i. has got us on the wrong track entirely, time to start over [more]
- the pragmatic web (2002) semantic web optimised for relevant content [more]
- action hypertext (2002) web-authoring tools should accommodate dynamically evolving pages [more]
- the Joyce police (2002) cruising joyce-sites for errors and issuing citations [more]
- EWRs (2003) epiphanies-while-reading [less]
- etymogeny (2003) a way of sorting words/concepts according to when the nervous system became capable of dealing with them [more]
- page memory (2003) the universal ability to recall where on the two-page spread an interesting bit occured [thread]
- v* (2003) very (eg vshort, varcane, vfriv)
- Philosophy Markup Language, History-of-Science Markup Language, Rhetorical Markup Language (2003) what they sound like [more]
- goldfarb's conjecture (2003) the illusion that text styling should be associated with semantic markup [more]
- grand metasynthesis (2004) aka The Singularity, but with an eye to the sorts of problems that will actually have to be solved along the way [more]
- crystal tags (2005) hypothetical elaboration of nntp (network news transfer protocol, ie usenet/netnews/newsgroups/DejaNews/GoogleGroups) to replace email, blogs, and newsfeeds [more]
- view-scaling (2005) optimally fitting the view of any object to the allocated space [more]
- hoaxtop (2005) negroponte's olpc (a cellphone designed by the proverbial committee) [more]
- Gg* (2005) Google (eg GgW = GoogleWeb, GgI = GgImages, GgN = GgNews, etc)
- I'm-an-idiot day (2005) confess a weakness on the 13th of every month? [more]
- weather giant (2006) visualisation of height of weather-phenomena via imaginary giant [more]
- zipless blogging (2006) effortless blogging, interface-wise [more]
- yahoo zodiac (2006) a more-or-less disciplined theoretical visualisation of a web ontology [more]
- radial ontology (2006) any visualisation of an ontology that puts the root (of the 'tree') at the center [more]
- heraldic barcodes (2006) schematic icons that encapsulate a lot of metadata for easy human scanning [more]
- OS avatar (2006) inevitable interface feature where your OS tracks your current state [more]
- self-conscious computing (2006) building debuggers' TRACE function into hard- and software at deepest level [more]
- radio goggles (2006) visualisation experiment intended to explore why radio reception is so unpredictable [more]
- pluripedia (2006) an evolution of wikipedia where multiple versions of each article are ranked according to your circle of trusted referees [more]
- mini-blogs (2006) a 'view' that should be available on all web2.0 sites, allowing you to publish your own edition of the site's ongoing content, and to subscribe to others' miniblogs [more]
- Glass earworms (2006) insane atonal earworms [more]
- Polti vocabularies (2006) catalogs of (eg) plot skeletons [more]
- worldtree (2007) was 'tree of life' (2005) 3D-worldlines visualisation of unique tree of life on Earth [intro]
- discourse patterns (2007) a pattern language for rhetoric [more]
- jLo notation (2007) shortening a two-word phrase by appending the lowercase initial of the first word to the capitalised last word
- wBu (2007) GWBush = Pere wBu, wBu Roi (apologies to aJarry)
- floaters (2007) blog-posts postdated so they stay at the top
- meretocracy (2007) government by the most meretricious
- tag portals (pending) the idea that any site with tagging should encourage taggers to create a portal-page for each tag, that gives an overview of everything the tagger thinks is important about that tag
- net scouts (pending) incentive program for net.illiterate adults via 'merit badges'
- Smithee dreams (pending) dreams with abysmal 'production values' eg plot holes, lousy special effects
- dissipedia (pending) a wikipedia of links to negative criticism of ideas/people/etc
- hypodata (pending) eg footnotes (cx metadata)
- hypertext mashup language (pending) inevitable evolution where web markup allows multiple pages to be customised and/or combined
- chronogram (pending) a graph with time as the Y axis (flowing up) and space as the X
- .5* (pending) semi- (eg '.5friv' = semifriv)
- pagestream (pending) eg your browser history, or your linkblog, or a page of search-engine results
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