The new trend of "Lurking" - aka Lesuire Working

Has Anomaly's  Johnny Vulkan just coined a new Web2 phrase (remember he was the brains behind Branded Utility) Last night, this popped up on my Twitter feed:(and of course this being Twitter, read his the comment at the bottom first for the dialogue to make sense...)

;-)

I LOVE this - "Lurking" - Leisure working, the act of maintaining one's Social Media entities whilst in the office.

I tweeted him back to ask him if he coined it (its always important to determine ownership) and as you can see, JV won't believe it till its blogged.

So, Johnny here you are - you just coined "Lurking" - now Blogosphere/Twittersphere/Plannersphere, lets go out and spread the love...

Comments

[faris]

like it - but might be confusing - lurking has pre-existing meaning for geeks...

lovelove

[Noah Brier]

Ha, was just going to leave the same comment as Faris.

Maybe lorking? ;)

[amelia]

Do you boys mean this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker

It sounded like there was something dirtier in Faris's mind!

;-D

[andy]

yup, not the right word. I think of that kind of maintenance almost like gardening.

social weeding? too much about removing the unwanted. and a yucky useage of the word social..

hmm