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SMS is quick, easy, sometimes sexy and always to the point. But it is also the modern, surgical way to dump a lover. Mobile savvy singles reveal their views on the 'textiquette' of modern love.

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Monty Python - The argument clinic

Word of the week 25 - 31 May 2009 SOCIAL NETWORKING

Word of the week 19 - 25 January 2009 PHISHING

The criminal activity of persuading people to give personal information such as account numbers, passwords and credit card details by directing them to a fake website which has been made to look exactly the same as the website of a legitimate bank or other organisation.

Typically, emails are used as "bait" (= cebo) in order to get the potential victim to visit the fake website. The emails use various stratagems to trick readers into clicking on the included links, thereby opening the bogus website. Information submitted on these bogus websites may then be used to steal funds from the user's accounts and/or steal the victim's identity.

The term phishing has been around in computer hacker culture since the mid-nineties, where it originally referred more generally to the practice of acquiring password information in order to infringe security barriers. Its use specifically in the context of internet-based financial crimes is more recent. The word is derived from a deliberate misspelling of fish in its verbal sense of trying to obtain information.

Word of the week 20 - 26 October 2008: BLOG

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. In 1997 the name ‘weblog’ was used for the first time by Jorn Barger who called his site in this way. The term ‘blog’ was coined three years later by Peter Merholz who broke the word ‘weblog’ into ‘we blog’ and the new word ‘blog’ started to function as both a noun and a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.



There are various types of blogs:

A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog, a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog.

Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs or legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs). An edublog is a blog written by or for teachers and maintained for the purpose of classroom instruction.