Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/27/mobisode_outrage/
El Reg issues Satan word alert
'Mobisode'? WTF is a 'mobisode'?
Posted in Entertainment, 27th July 2007 11:34 GMT
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El Reg's lexicographical soviet this morning ramped up to Defcon Red after our Mephistophelean terminology radar detected a potentially-fatal neologism hidden in an otherwise innocent Reuters report (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-07-27T085821Z_01_N27213882_RTRIDST_0_TECH-LOST-DC.XML).
The piece in question concerns something about TV smash Lost spin-offs. Hardly earth-shattering stuff, but try this quote from the show's co-creator/executive producer, Damon Lindelof: "It will allow us to focus our time and energy into creating separate medias like the game, mobisodes, another 'Lost Experience', and we have a couple of cool book ideas that tie into the show."
Regular readers know we take a hard line on this kind of outrage, as witnessed by the fate of mobe (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/09/mobe_poll_result/), lappy (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/15/lappy_poll_results/) and ICT (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/09/ict_proscribed/). Accordingly, we've dispatched a Vulture Central black ops team to have a "quiet word" with Lindelof about "mobisode". We'll keep you posted. ®