by Sue Horner | Feb 5, 2009 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
At one point, word clouds were everywhere: illustrating a newspaper article, highlighting a book’s content, offering a glimpse into a web site. And for good reason. They are great visual signals for what’s inside. I made the one shown here with a fun toy...
by Sue Horner | Feb 2, 2009 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Some interesting words I’ve run across lately: Wrapsimonious: “Joe recycles nothing, so when he carefully removes the paper from his gift, he’s just being wrapsimonious so he won’t have to purchase any.” (From Verbotomy) Clickstream: The...
by Sue Horner | Jan 17, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
It’s only marginally related to communications (let’s put it under word play) but if you’re a fan of occasional silly fun, I ran across a quiz (oops, no longer available) through the Mental Floss trivia newsletter: The quiz posted phrases and asked...
by Sue Horner | Nov 6, 2007 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
You know technology has truly infiltrated our lives when tech terms apply to people. A client recently asked what my bandwidth was. It used to mean how much data could be sent through a network or modem, but now it’s evolved to mean “how much extra time do...
