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tinterweb n. Which unfortunately for you, means I won’t be on the tinterweb no more. [English Online Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2006)

tinterweb n. So am gunna go ome n look at more houses on tinterweb for next year. [English Online Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2006)

torso n. In this issue of the Advisor I also discuss the “torso”—keywords lying in the productive area between the head and the long, lonely tail. The “torso” is a cool new word floating around Silicon Valley. [English Online Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 27, 2006)

transclusion n. These components are then included by reference within documents, which is a practice often called “transclusion.” Transclusion does away with reuse via copy-and-paste, an insidious practice that results in a spiraling loss of control, maintenance issues and the uncomfortable need to accept the lesser of two evils: (1) the reality of compounding maintenance burdens; or, (2) learning to accept inconsistent and out-of-date information. [English Media Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2008)

Try Me virus n. I suspect Second Life is largely a “Try Me” virus, where reports of a strange and wonderful new thing draw the masses to log in and try it, but whose ability to retain anything but a fraction of those users is limited. The pattern of a Try Me virus is a rapid spread of first time users, most of whom drop out quickly, with most of the dropouts becoming immune to later use. Pointcast was a Try Me virus, as was LambdaMOO, the experiment that Second Life most closely resembles. [English Online Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Dec. 13, 2006)

tumblelog n. Blogging has mutated into simpler forms (specifically, link- and mob- and aud- and vid- variant), but I don’t think I’ve seen a blog like Chris Neukirchen’s Anarchaia, which fudges together a bunch of disparate forms of citation (links, quotes, flickrings) into a very long and narrow and distracted tumblelog. A good idea and I’m sure more of these will be showing up. [English Online] [full cite] (May. 2, 2007)

turk v. For fees ranging from dollars to single pennies per task, workers, who cheekily call themselves “turkers,” do tasks that may be rote, like matching a color to a photograph, but they can confound a computer. Conceived to help Amazon improve its own sites, Mturk.com is now a marketplace.…Curtis Taylor, 50, a corporate trainer in Clarksville, Ind., who has earned more than $345 on Mturk.com, doesn’t even think of turking as work.…He doesn’t like to watch TV much, and says that turking beats playing free online poker.…Eric Cranston, 18, who recently graduated from high school, got into turking because at the time he didn’t have anything better to do. [English Employment Online] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2006)

turker v. For fees ranging from dollars to single pennies per task, workers, who cheekily call themselves “turkers,” do tasks that may be rote, like matching a color to a photograph, but they can confound a computer. Conceived to help Amazon improve its own sites, Mturk.com is now a marketplace.…Curtis Taylor, 50, a corporate trainer in Clarksville, Ind., who has earned more than $345 on Mturk.com, doesn’t even think of turking as work.…He doesn’t like to watch TV much, and says that turking beats playing free online poker.…Eric Cranston, 18, who recently graduated from high school, got into turking because at the time he didn’t have anything better to do. [English Employment Online] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2006)

twiller n. Recently, a handful of creators (present company included) have scrapped pen and paper for mobile phone and keypad, and started texting their novels—in real time, just a few characters at a time. Our medium is Twitter, a service that lets you broadcast bursts of 140 characters at a time to be read by people who subscribe to get your updates. In my case, I’ve for the last two months been using Twitter to write a real-time thriller. Hence: Twiller. (Cheap word play is what you get when you disintermediate, as they say, your agent and editor). [English Arts & Literature Online Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Aug. 31, 2008)

twitterati n. Just realized the word “twitterati” (twitterati: n.—"those who use twitter.") is in March 2007 where the word “podcast” was in October 2004. I have a feeling there’ll be more, soon. [English Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2007)

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