The Last Post

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The final post for 2006 has to be a moan at blogosphere’s godfather - Seth Godin for supporting the creation of the blogebrity syndrome via his Zlist post entitled “What to read now/next”

And yet again the list’s flavour is pointedly biased toward marketing blogs. So we must just accept that blogoland is created for marketers? I don’t think so Seth!

More to the point is the language used in Seth’s next post about the list entitled “Zlist Update”. He says, “I’ve been amazed, then delighted and then disturbed by the response to the zlist plexo I posted.

WTF is a ‘plexo’ for crissakes? Why can’t people stop being overly clever and just speak good old fashioned English? Must we always have to look up what is meant or implied in Google or, in my case, the Oxford Concise which I prefer?

Bollocks to that. But I did in this case. See below.

plex·us (plÄ•k’sÉ™s)
n., pl. plexus or -us·es.
A structure in the form of a network, especially of nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatics: the cardiac plexus; the pelvic plexus.
A combination of interlaced parts; a network.

So I am afaraid I have no hope that 2007 will see the emergence of good simple language being used in blogs if the head honcho persists in perplexing his readers. Other drones will emulate. What a pity.

Happy New Year!