Word: folke
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...four former Sandinista cabinet members, there was a flavor of the past, but this was not your father's protest movement. Both sides boasted bloggers and internet radio show hosts, caterers, shuttle buses, tee shirt and bumper sticker production on a major scale, instant music CDs-patriotic or folk-and the hit of the day, saddammagnets.com, a set of refrigerator magnets featuring Saddam Hussein in his underwear...
USER-GENERATED One of the fastest-growing search techniques is tagging, a grassroots phenomenon whereby users label websites with descriptive tags, building a network of knowledge dubbed folksonomy--a taxonomy of knowledge organized by ordinary folk. Yahoo! was quick to spot this trend, and in March bought Flickr, a photo website organized with a communal tagging model. Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo!'s technology director, says the company wants to apply search across all its user-created content. The tagline? "Better search through people...
...opponent on the grounds that debate suggests parity. But in the free marketplace of ideas, you have to take on all comers--the good, the bad and the ugly. If you cannot believe that the truth will win out in a fair competition for support by regular, well-educated folk, then you are no scientist...
...meeting. School officials told commissioners they have had to change rural school bus stops because some parents are fearful the heavy traffic will cause accidents. And so for now, at least some residents want to put up the Keep Out sign. "We're just good, warm, welcoming country folk," said Martha Fulp, matriarch of a fourth generation Crawford farming family, "but this is too much...
Many a song has been written about Hank Williams, but this is the first in which he plays a bar in drag and his mascara runs. Williams' fans should give a close listen before they shout for Keen's scalp; his mix of irony, folk and honky-tonk is a tribute to Hank's influence...