Words Fireworks

Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus.

For a word lover there is nothing better than seeing the gentle explosions of words!!

More info: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/blogexcerpts/word-cloud-a-film-inspired-by-the-visual-thesaurus/

SoMoClo

The term illustrates the convergence of social media, mobile and cloud. 

What used to be three siloed technologies have now begun merging, thanks to an infrastructure that allows them to “collapse” into each other and form a new IT construct.

Source: SoMoClo ... huh?

TermWiki Glossary Widget

I wanted to upload a glossary on my blog and I was looking for a nice way to create an appealing, social, and re-usable glossary on my website.. Couldn't find anything so fancy!

Glossaries on websites are usually in the form of simple text. The only thing a user can do is just reading them, which is ok but, I wanted more! 

I thus asked the TermWiki team if there was any solution to create a glossary and embed it on my website or blog. They replied that there wasn't any so far but that they were curious to know more what I exactly wanted. So I sent them my idea with a couple of layouts and they told me that they were willing to develop it!

So this my dream glossary: a Glossary Widget where, apart from checking terms and definitions, I can also share my terms on social networks and gather comments and feedback ( on their platform!)

More in details, TermWiki Widget:

• allows websites to easily embed subject-specific terminology content on their own pages;
• directly embeds glossaries relevant to your website content right from TermWiki’s vast database of existing terms and professionally developed definitions;
• lets visitors obtain key information about important terms without having to visit a separate reference site;
• and last but not least, it raises your website visibility and SEO by including search keywords right on your pages.

Brave new Wordweb!!

Toss out that dog-eared dictionary and worn-out thesaurus, and use this amazingly helpful tool!

The unrivalled guide for word lovers

The Chambers Dictionary is the dictionary of choice for word lovers!

Whether you're an avid wordgamer or just enjoy revelling in the quirks and curiosities of the English language, The Chambers Dictionary is your ultimate companion. The Chambers Dictionary delves deep into all the glories of the English language, covering weird and wonderful words like spoffish, jobernowl, mullligrubs and humdudgeon, all the while ensuring it covers the latest developments in English.

The 12th edition of the Chambers Dictionary, offers also a compendium of insults – never has cursing been so creative!

Candle-waster: Someone who studies late.

Chawbacon: A country person.

Desk-jockey: A clerical worker.

Face-ache: An ugly or disagreeable person.

Hen-hussy: A man who meddles with women's affairs.

Humgruffin: A terrible person.

Ink-jerker: A professional author or journalist.

Propeller-head: An obsessively studious or technologically minded person.

Quidnunc: An inquisitive, gossiping person.

Rantipole: A wild, reckless person.

Slip-string: A rogue.

Two-pot screamer: A person who gets drunk on a comparatively small amount of alcohol (Australian).

Source:

The Chambers Dictionary

Guardian

There is a tarantula on your south-west leg!

A funny book about us, and how we understand each other.

We are all cisgendered!

It's a newish term for the default state of the world's population, those  whose sense of gender identity matches their sex at birth.

It was created to avoid the clunky "non-transgendered" and the pejorative "normal". "Cis-" is from Latin "cis", on this side of something, as opposed to "trans-", on the opposite side, which is from Latin "trans", across..

Source: Worldwidewords