Comments on: Annoying Geospatial Buzzwords

By: dilbert

dilbert — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:12:28 +0000

http://christophercotton.com/monkeyboys/images/dilbert-buzzword.jpeg

By: Earl

Earl — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:48:09 +0000

pretty much all of the above, tho, no one seems to have mentioned…

vanilla!

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:31:01 +0000

I’m definitely guilty of using a whole mess of these buzzwords listed above… But in at least several of the instances cited, there’s no genuinely simple or elegant way to convey exactly the same meaning without either using more words than the buzzword itself, or without inventing some new construct (and thereby expanding the ‘buzzwordosphere’)

By: Paco

Paco — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:43:21 +0000

I like the Manifold ones:

- retard
- legacy dinosaur
- idiotic
- moron

and those are just what they call their customers!!!

By: Me 2.0

Me 2.0 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:33:24 +0000

I remember an ESRI rep at a state-wide GIS conference kept going on-and-on about “fine grained objects” vs. “coarse-grained-objects.” I couldn’t help but wonder if he’d ever coded anything in his life.

Reminds me of Jack Black:
“Those that can’t do….teach.
Those that can’t teach…teach Phys. Ed.”

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:10:22 +0000

F**k it, we’re doing Web 5.0
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930

By: Nichodemus

Nichodemus — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:51:29 +0000

Anything about new “solutions” for your GIS/whatever “toolbox”.

My toolbox has saws, hammers, and screwdrivers, not expensive consultants’ scripts and software.

By: pierre_k

pierre_k — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:27:12 +0000

my favourite buzzword is “buzzword”!

By: Robin Capper

Robin Capper — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:32:55 +0000

Sustainable
“Ordinary” when used with “people”. I’ve never met an ordinary person.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:25:54 +0000

LBS
GeoINT