Neologisms

When will B.J. Fogg start a captology podcast?

25 Jul 2005

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Another neologism for today. The word is captology. Captology is an emerging field of study related to the design, theory, and analysis of persuasive, not pervasive, technologies. It is the study of technologies that change attitudes and encourage behaviors instead of forcing behaviors. Captology lies at the intersection of computers and the art and science [...]

By: sebrenner Category: Neologisms

Podcasting, now that is a Neologism

22 Dec 2004

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Yesterday’s word got me to thinking and reading about word creation and where new words come from. This of course led me to a new new word- neologism. It is a word that has two meanings. The first is a new word or term. It can refer to a meaningful word like podcasting or it [...]

By: sebrenner Category: Latin, Neologisms