Need any more proof that coworking has hit the mainstream? CNN ran a 2:20 report on it this morning. Polly Labarre does a great job of summarizing Jelly and coworking. John Roberts, on the other, added zilch to the piece — in fact he detracted when he made a lame remark about frat boys, Led Zeppelin, and a bong. Sorry, frat boys and coworking just don’t belong in the same sentence. Ms. Labarre recovered nicely, though.
Interesting, but not surprising, that CNN considers this Breaking News. That term is becoming meaningless, at least on that network.
And get a load of the words above and below the coworking definition. Arsefingle? Yipnupdooley? What dictionary is that from? I checked Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words
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1 World News » Coworking as breaking news // Mar 31, 2008 at 12:04 pm
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2 Tony Bacigalupo // Mar 31, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Great post… I noticed that ridiculous dictionary page too!
If you look closely, right under the Coworking definition is the end of a description of another word. It reads: “”sexual attraction that cannot be explained by science”.
I wonder what word that could have been!
Anyway, I found it very fascinating to see them use a dictionary format to describe what coworking is.
Anybody want to take bets on when (or if) coworking gets added to the dictionary? :-)
3 Julie Gomoll // Mar 31, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I found it - it’s the Chambers dictionary. Here’s a link to the original photo:
http://www.the-spine.com/archives/208
That word is:
Prezza: 1. n. an overweight gangster 2. adj. any kind of strange sexual attraction that cannot be explained by science.
Hmm… what kind of objects of attraction might that include? Parking meters? Brie? Larry King?
4 epinion // Apr 25, 2008 at 1:28 pm
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