
"Blog," "netiquette," "cookie," and "wiki" have been voted among <A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/tc_afp/britaininternetlanguage_070621120604">the most irritating words spawned by the Internet,</A> according to the results of a poll published Thursday.
Topping the list of words most likely to make Web users "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard" was folksonomy, a term for a Web classification system.
"Blogosphere", the collective name for blogs or online journals, was second; "blog" itself was third; "netiquette", or Internet etiquette, came fourth and "blook", a book based on a blog, was fifth.