It's a special kind of nerd who gets excited about updates to the AP Stylebook. I am that kind of nerd.
And it seems that I surround myself with those kinds of nerds. One such friend is Liz Bollinger, president of KIS Corp of Florida - a self-described "proofreading perfectionist living in a world full of typos." She alerted friends, clients and colleagues about the latest changes in an e-mail last week:
"Your friendly proofreader here, passing along some exciting AP updates on social media terms. (Yes, I really do find these exciting!) Some of these words have not been addressed before by AP, so it's nice to finally have an official ruling on them.
Social Media Terms:
aggregator, API, app, avatar, blog, Bluetooth, click-throughs, crowdsourcing, curate, e-book, emoticon, e-reader, Facebook, fan, follow, friend, Google, Googling, Googled, handle, hashtag, IM, keywords, LinkedIn, liveblog, mashup, metadata, microsite, MySpace, retweet, RSS, search engine optimization, smart phone, social networks, social media, status update., text messaging/instant messaging, trending, Twitter, unfriend, VoIP, website, widget, wiki, Wikipedia, YouTube"
You can follow Liz on Twitter @kiscorp along with the good folks at AP Stylebook @apstylebook
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