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The practices of cyberflaneurism and cyberphotography differ significantly from traditional flaneurism in this regard. Where the 18th-and 19th-century flaneur sought to evaluate and describe modern transformations in work, politics and public life more generally and the collective consciousness given rise to by these changes, cyberflaneurs-cum-street-photographers inhabit an environment shaped by an ever-increasing publicization of private life.
—"Loitering in cyberspace: Cheryl Sourkes' takes snapshots of the web's digital citizenry," C: International Contemporary Art, June 22, 2007
Earliest Citation: I see the value of cyberspace not in the replacement of our cities, but in its potential to rekindle our fondness for and fascination with urban environs. The attraction that it exerts on the millions that stroll through its maze of information might be used to reinvigorate our cities. Cyberflaneurs have become captivated with the Internet's ready supply of huge amounts of information that they can access at all times of day or night.
—Udo Greinacher in Nan Ellin (ed.), Architecture of Fear, Princeton Architectural Press, February 1, 1997
Notes: The word flaneur, a saunterer or "man about town" (there's an old-fashioned phrase for you) comes from the French flâner, "to saunter idly", and first appeared in English around 1854. A cyberflaneur is also known as a virtual flaneur, a term that also dates to 1997 (and in fact its first use is in the same essay as the earliest cite for cyberflaneur; see page 290).
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The distinction separates slacklining from seemingly similar ventures, such as tightrope walking, in which the rope is stretched tightly and remains static. A slackline moves, however, and when a beginner follows the impulse to concentrate on keeping her feet still, it moves even more, swinging from side to side as the feet clench it with increasing intensity.
—Diana Saverin, "Slackliners find balance one step at a time," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 11, 2011
Earliest Citation: Potter, a 26-year-old "slack liner," was tethered to the rope by a leash attached to a harness that was wrapped around his waist and legs.... Slack lining, or loose rope walking, is part sport, part mind game, part spiritual quest. It requires physical agility, precision and balance to walk atop a line stretched over a precipice.
Notes: The suspended nylon webbing is called a slackline. If the slackline is suspended high over the ground, it's called highlining. Other variants include tricklining (performing tricks on the slackline), waterlining (slacklining over water), and urbanlining (slacklining in a park or other urban location). And, yes, the dude in the toga during the recent Super Bowl halftime show was slacklining.
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At a time when Athens is still involved in debt restructuring negotiations with its private creditors, Neelie Kroes' recent allusions to a Greek exit from the euro are a sign that European leaders are intent on preparing the terrain for such an eventuality.
—Marc Peeperkorn, "The 'Grexit' taboo has been broken," Presseurop, February 8, 2012
Earliest Citation: In this piece, we make two key points: First, we raise our estimate of the likelihood of Greek exit from the eurozone (or 'Grexit') to 50% over the next 18 months from earlier estimates of ours which put it at 25-30%.
—William Buiter and Ebrahim Rahbari, "Rising Risks of Greek Euro Area Exit," Citigroup Global Markets, February 6, 2012
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An approach called altmetrics—short for alternative metrics—aims to measure Web-driven scholarly interactions, such as how often research is tweeted, blogged about, or bookmarked. "There's a gold mine of data that hasn't been harnessed yet about impact outside the traditional citation-based impact," says Dario Taraborelli, a senior research analyst with the Strategy Team at the Wikimedia Foundation and a proponent of the idea.
—Jennifer Howard, "Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online," The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 29, 2012
Earliest Citation: I like the term #articlelevelmetrics, but it fails to imply *diversity* of measures. Lately, I'm liking #altmetrics.
—Jason Priem, @jasonpriem, Twitter, September 28, 2010
Notes: Although the prudent neologism collector must at all times be on guard against Twitter-based coinages that are just silly (an adjective that can be rightfully applied to the vast majority of such terms), exceptions sometimes cry out to be made. To wit, I offer you tweetation, a tweet that cites a scholarly article:
For the purpose of this paper, I call a citation in a tweet (mentioning a journal article URL) a "tweetation", to distinguish it from a citation in a journal article (which is the metric I compared tweetations against).
—Gunther Eysenbach, "Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact," Journal of Medical Internet Research, December 16, 2011
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