Webeo ("web video")

[Gareth Branwyn]

What Grant said.

It's been in my queue, but I can't bring myself to publish it, and
therefore encourage the spread of such a horrific coinage. I passed on
"webisode" when it was starting to gain some currency for the same
reason. That might have been more irresponsible on my part, as there
were clearly multiple cites, but at this point, I think only Def Jam
Records is using "webeos."

Grant Barrett wrote:
>
> On lundi 2 avril 2001 09:15, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
> >   Russell Simmons says that he's now into making "webeos," or
> >"web videos," with his rap artists.
> >   "Webeo" doesn't show up on Paul McFedries' site.  It wasn't
> >mentioned by Gareth Branwyn in WIRED.  It hasn't been "Among
> >the New Words" that I can recall.
> >   Why not?
>
> Because it's a crappy invented word that doesn't deserve to catch on, though
> according to the Popik Corollary of Gresham's Law, which corollary is the language
> equivalent of Murphy's Law, it probably will.
>
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