E-Dribble » addictionary http://www.infosprite.com vaccuum packed mindless ramblings Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:33:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 I thought they were going to try something “new”. http://www.infosprite.com/2009/07/27/i-thought-they-were-going-to-try-something-new/ http://www.infosprite.com/2009/07/27/i-thought-they-were-going-to-try-something-new/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:17:07 +0000 schwim http://www.infosprite.com/?p=572 In an effort to win back some of the readers that are ditching formal news sites, The New York Times is going to implement Addictionary, a system that creates fake words and creates definitions for them, through user input.

While others view it as something new for the news sites, I see it as just an extension.  They’ve been printing fake news for ages.  Why not throw a couple made up words in there as well?

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