Ok, since this conversation originated on Twitter I thought that the most appropriate tool to use to adjudicate the decision was Twitter. Earlier this afternoon, Ben Martin aka @bkmcae, the boy genius of the A-List Blogosphere as recognized by Mensa, proudly stated that he was “being good today“. A short while later he had a Fogdirog outburst.

I raised the question to him on how he considered himself on good behavior if he was Fogdirogging all over the place to which he responded that it “was just an outburst“. The whole conversation got me thinking about what the proper terminology is for a Twitter-powered outburst should be really be called and I asked the question, again via Twitter.

Matt Baehr aka @cardcat suggested that the most appropriate term to describe a Twitter-mediated outburst should be “fogdirog” in honor of our good friend and A-List Blogger Jamie Notter, and went so far as to update the official Fogdirog wiki to reflect this new usage. @bkmcae came back and suggested “Twirade” to which Mickie Rops aka @mickierops was non-committal stating that she liked “Twirade” but that it was also hard to go wrong with “Fogdirog”.

So my question to all of you is what is the best term to describe a twitter powered outburst? We’ll use Twitter to help me to facilitate this highly unscientific poll.

If you believe that it is indeed Fogdirog send an @tweet to me in the following format:

@desabol Fogdirog

If you believe that is is a Twirade send an @tweet to me in the following format:

@desabol Twirade

If you believe that it should be something else send an @tweet to me suggesting the recommended alternative in the following format:

@desabol Alternative term

I will keep the poll open for the next two days at which time I will post the winning term forever to be committed to our official lexicon of Twitter-related terminology.

I had planned to hit the ground running after the ASAE Technology Conference and post not only my notes but also a lot of associated thoughts, learnings and observations. That was until I got home. My entire family has been sidelined with a pretty nasty virus.

Stay tuned, as I am going to do my best to get my thoughts posted in the next day or two.

Earlier this week, I posted on how I felt text messaging had reached a tipping point. Today, I found a recent post from David Pogue of the New York Times on The Next Generation of Online Shorthand and thought it was a fitting extension to my original post. We’re all familiar with text shorthand such as LOL, OMG, BRB, and AFK, and anybody that texts, twitters or IM’s on a regular basis knows just how convenient the shortcuts really are. However, the problem is, as Pogue states: “they are pretty ancient.”

He set out to create a updated list of online shorthand with the help of two of his summer interns. They surfaced a number of keepers like:

• GI — Google it
• MOP — Mac or PC?
• FCAO — five conversations at once
• IIOYT — is it on YouTube?
• DYFH — did you Facebook him/her?
• CMT (CMF, CMM, CMB) — check my Twitter (Facebook, Myspace, blog)
• CYE (CYF, CYM, CYB) — check your email (Facebook, Myspace, blog)

They went on to also create some specifically for iPhone owners.

• SPLETS — send pics later; Edge too slow
• CSVUI — can’t send video, using iPhone
• BPWMI — boss playing with my iPhone
• SIK — sorry, iPhone keyboard
• OOM — out of messages (for iPhone users who haven’t upgraded their AT&T “200 messages a month” plan)

And for all of the parents out there who saw the following commercial and thought the mom and daughter were speaking a foreign language:

They even formulated some shorthand specifically for parents. My favorites from that list:

• NIWYM — no idea what you mean
• NCK — not a chance, kid
• AYD? — are you drunk?
• LODH — log off, do homework
• DYMK? — does your mother know?

It’s not really the most productive post that I have done in a while, but I found the abbreviations to be a great Friday afternoon distraction. Check out the David’s full list at the NYTimes website. My only question is: should we add some of our own to the list? Knowing that Bmart is pretty proficient with his phone and does like to txt, I bet he has more than a few.