"Buzzwords"

There was a lot of talk at Etech about buzzwords - what they were, who was saying them, what they said about the state of the world. All very meta. Here, forthwith, are the words and phrases I liked best:

Verbs
Linking and tracking and ranking and sorting.
playing in parallel
spying on yourself
Showing fuzziness
wrangled and mustered

Nouns
sense and sensibility
conversational conversation-piece
Live clipboard
alien abductions
The “ing” behind the Thing
demand aggregation

Descriptions
a vast slow, terrific thing that is trying to emerge
Not everyware but patchy and limited
She is a real person – she can be tagged, ranked, sorted.
the stale primordial soup of passive thingness that rots in our biosphere. We are burying all that is dead within us.
The network leaks into the world
Debris becomes legible

Epigraphs
acronyms are the small change of the tech world.
The words misled us. I think we could have done better words.
You need to feed the critics.
“We were everywhere, except where we actually were.”
it’s so much funnier on DSL
Members defend readers from writers
Not having features is also a strategy
Controllers are weighed down by the expectations of genre