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Wordsmiths require words and their meanings. Sometimes, those of other languages too. I am a guy who dabbles around with words, some I carry in my head and some I need to carry with me. But where?
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Services like the Mac App Store may be convenient for discovering software, but they can come with quite a few downsides too. Here are ten other great places to find the program you need.
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From a lexicographer’s point of view, the best language story of 2010 was the recent paper in Science about “culturomics.” The authors define this term as “the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture,” but what they literally did, working with Google Books, was take the full text of a huge number of books — about 4 percent of all titles ever published — and crunch the words as data, on the model of the Human Genome Project.
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Most of us have heard of lifestreaming before. Some refer to it has a logging of your entire life online (maybe in a blog or YouTube or something similar). You can also use the word lifestreaming to refer to a stream containing all of your online activity. For instance, you may have content on a blog or two, Flickr, Posterous, Twitter (get the MakeUseOf guide!), YouTube, etc. If you want all of that streamed into one place online, you’ll be wanting a lifestream.
