tech·neu·ro·tic [tek-no-raw-tik]
adjective

  1. A blogging disorder in which feelings of ranking anxiety, obsessive “do they like me?” thoughts, compulsive stats checking and even physical complaints in various degrees and patterns dominate the personality.
  2. Compulsive gadget buying behavior fueled by the impossible ideal that you can own a piece of technology that is not already obsolete.
  3. An obsessive character trait that drives most avant guard technological inventions such as the robot roach and the Moller Sky car

Use: “A rash of techneurotic behavior assaulted the blog community during the Great Subscriber Crash of 07

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6 Comments

  1. Nov 9th, 2007 at 06:11 am Naomi Dunford

    Shane,

    In an act of creepy levels of psychic-ness, you’ve posted this just in time. Feedburner went down again overnight - down by 40% on my end.

    This just goes to confirm my theory that you, in fact, run the internet and are trying to engage in a massive publicity stunt.

    Loved the word, by the way.

  2. Nov 9th, 2007 at 06:11 am Susan

    *guiltily raised hand upon reading #2*

  3. Nov 9th, 2007 at 11:11 am shane

    @Naomi - I only wish I could pull off something that cool!

    @Susan - I feel your guilt, for the first time. I don’t usually care, but suddenly I want to “gift” my iPhone to Julie for Christmas and get the newest shiny one I KNOW they will release at the January conference so that I can have GPS and all the other cool features it will have.

  4. Nov 11th, 2007 at 17:11 pm Lindsay

    I am…
    I’ve tried the tablets but they didn’t work.
    Is there an ointment or maybe an incantation?
    Maybe I could “Twitter” I got it real bad :)

  5. Nov 11th, 2007 at 22:11 pm shane

    Damn, no ointment but I heard they have a brand new medical device that extracts a rare brand of snake oil - available to you for 19.99 in three easy payments.

  6. Nov 13th, 2007 at 01:11 am Brandon

    @Lindsay: incantation… very funny. I’m thinking more of less a 12 step group could help out… except the problem is if you put a bunch of bloggers in a room with internet access they will inevitably start a blog about it. Heck, even when I’m without internet access I’m writing notes on my iPhone. Dammit I’ve got it too…

    @shane: I need to borrow your snake oil again.

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