When you’re having a conversation with someone who isn’t necessarily up on the local lingo as you are, it’s usually helpful to bring them up to speed and put things in context for him or her. Likewise, it’s helpful to actually define a certain term when it’s an integral part of your news article. Unfortunately, Jay Cridlin didn’t do that in an article in the St. Petersburg Times on Wednesday describing people getting “dooced,” that is to say, getting fired for writing something on a weblog.
Surely, most people reading this article aren’t going to have a clue why this is called “being dooced” and I can’t say that the term has made it into the public lexicon just yet. If anything, stuff like this is the easiest part of being a journalist in some ways.
[via Steve Rubel]
