Web Semantics Watch VII: The Class of the New

http://theclassofthenew.net/

Hey wow, there's a whole free book of weird neologisms in there

The Class of the New by Richard Barbrook

'Netizens, elancers, cognitarians, swarm-capitalists, hackers, produsumers, knowledge workers, pro-ams... these are just a few of the monikers that have been applied to the new social class emerging from the networked workplace.

'In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection of quotations from authors who in different ways attempt to identify an innovative element within society – ‘the class of the new’."

(((I'd add "alpha geek," "maker" and "wrangler" to that extensive

list. Some of the members of this "new class" are getting pretty old, and, as a "class," they may well vanish into yet another "class" before they can cook up the semantics to properly describe themselves.)))