Comments on: Loose the Jargon http://informationtakesover.co.uk/2005/11/loose-the-jargon/ Rocketing through library space... Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim http://informationtakesover.co.uk/2005/11/loose-the-jargon/comment-page-1/#comment-3293 Tim Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:28:27 +0000 http://blog.timhodson.com/archives/2005/11/30/loose-the-jargon/#comment-3293 I take your point. I was using <a href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=jargon&method=2&gwp=13" rel="nofollow">Jargon</a> in its sense as nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk. To the user (and indeed sometimes to me) that's what it appears to be. I take your point. I was using Jargon in its sense as nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk. To the user (and indeed sometimes to me) that’s what it appears to be.

]]> By: Roddy MacLeod http://informationtakesover.co.uk/2005/11/loose-the-jargon/comment-page-1/#comment-3292 Roddy MacLeod Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:51:44 +0000 http://blog.timhodson.com/archives/2005/11/30/loose-the-jargon/#comment-3292 'Jargon' really refers to the specialised, technical language of a trade, so that term could apply to OPAC, or the terms portal or gateway or RSS or feed, etc and such like, but not so much to the names of organisations or services. What I think you are meaning is that there are too many brand names, which may be true, but then everything has to be called something. There are, IMHO, far too many sites on the web doing very similar things, and each has its own name. No wonder people get confused. Some brand names can be successful - new examples are e.g. flickr or del.icio.us or Bloglines. Some brand names are pretty descriptive - e.g. the Internet Resources Newsletter http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html but in many cases, its difficult to come up with an appropriate descriptive name. The real secret is to have a good name and a good service. Not that many actually succeed in that department! ‘Jargon’ really refers to the specialised, technical language of a trade, so that term could apply to OPAC, or the terms portal or gateway or RSS or feed, etc and such like, but not so much to the names of organisations or services.

What I think you are meaning is that there are too many brand names, which may be true, but then everything has to be called something.

There are, IMHO, far too many sites on the web doing very similar things, and each has its own name. No wonder people get confused.

Some brand names can be successful – new examples are e.g. flickr or del.icio.us or Bloglines.

Some brand names are pretty descriptive – e.g. the Internet Resources Newsletter http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.html but in many cases, its difficult to come up with an appropriate descriptive name.

The real secret is to have a good name and a good service. Not that many actually succeed in that department!

]]> By: panlibus http://informationtakesover.co.uk/2005/11/loose-the-jargon/comment-page-1/#comment-3290 panlibus Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:44:18 +0000 http://blog.timhodson.com/archives/2005/11/30/loose-the-jargon/#comment-3290 <strong>A Different Day</strong> In the normal mix of 'stuff' in Talis Research, which currently for me is around Library 2.0 and the Talis Whisper demonstrator, it is nice occasionally to have a different day. Yesterday was one of those different days. It opened... A Different Day

In the normal mix of ‘stuff’ in Talis Research, which currently for me is around Library 2.0 and the Talis Whisper demonstrator, it is nice occasionally to have a different day. Yesterday was one of those different days. It opened…

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