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coupon train n. “A coupon train is a great way for a bunch of different people to share coupons from all different parts of the country.”…It works when a person posts a “train” on a coupon website.…That person is known as the “conductor.” Then others called “riders” sign up. When the “train” has enough passengers it “leaves the station.” That means a package of coupons is mailed from the conductor to the first rider. [English Money & Finance Online] [full cite] (Oct. 28, 2007)

credit-card banging n. But in those early years, with credit-card numbers circulating among unscrupulous Web masters and affiliates, various frauds proliferated. Prime among them was “credit-card banging,” whereby a person subscribing to one site might find he has been charged for a slew of others. [English Crime & Prisons Money & Finance Online] [full cite] (Apr. 29, 2007)

data exhaust n. Hansen also touted the utility of absorbing all the information users provide more passively. “We get a tremendous amount of information out of user patterns on our site. The ‘data exhaust’ as they call it, is a tremendously powerful tool. Once we can hook this up with print pubs, this is going to take things to a whole new level.” [English Online Technology] [full cite] (Nov. 4, 2007)

data smog n. She said most of her peers don’t know where to turn on the Internet besides free search engines. “It’s complicated,” she said. The Association of College and Research Librarians refers to it as “data smog.” Students deal with an abundance of information available to them from the comfort of their computer desk, but they can’t necessarily weed through it without training. [English Online] [full cite] (Jul. 31, 2006)

data Valdez n. Ted checks in on what people are calling the “data Valdez.”…Every couple of steps we take going forward,…we seem to get hit back by something horrible like “the call” or “the data Valdez.” [English Online Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Aug. 15, 2006)

data Valdez n. “The way we look at this is, it’s a Data Valdez situation,” said Tara Lemmey, president of San Francisco-based advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation. Just as the the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska was a disaster, so too is Microsoft’s loss of confidential information, she said. [English Online Technology] [full cite] (Aug. 15, 2006)

data Valdez n. Second “Data Valdez”…Shortly after the JetBlue scandal broke, Northwest Airlines admitted to handing over to NASA three months’ worth of passenger records—once more for data-mining research. [English Online Technology Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 15, 2006)

digital Alzheimer’s n. Experts say more and more workers in their 20s and 30s suffer from forgetfulness due to the flood of information that assaults them in the office and their growing dependency on digital devices. Some seek treatment in hospitals when the symptoms get worse. Doctors even have a name for it: Digital Alzheimer’s Disease, a condition they say now afflict modern urbanites just like migraine or insomnia. [English Health Online Technology] [full cite] (Jun. 4, 2007)

discomgooglation n. Now Google has become a symbol of the internet as a whole. A YouGov survey published last week found that Britons suffered from “discomgooglation”—a term used to describe how lost people feel if they can’t get on the internet. [English Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (Sep. 12, 2008)

domain v. Aspiring to be a domainer? Dream no more. You can start building your dream now…Domaining is a very lucrative field. How do you like the idea of earning $10,000 per day? [English Online] [full cite] (Apr. 3, 2007)

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