Comments on: Just What Do We Call Ourselves, Anyhow?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:55:59 +0000

I’m a finalist!!! I just got an email from them that my term…”NetWorker” is in the top 10!!! I know it’s not the most original term, but I think my reasoning behind the choice is what won them over. Thank you WWD for posting this contest! Also, everyone please go vote for “NetWorker” every day for the next week or so. :-) I’ll post a link about the contest and my gratitude to WWD on my blog later today. Thanks again!

By: billbennettnz

billbennettnz — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:28:33 +0000

Crikey, I hate terms like “digital bedouin”. Talk about here today, gone tomorrow.

By: Barbara Saunders

Barbara Saunders — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:58:12 +0000

Something ironic – factory workers work in factories; office workers work in offices/office buildings; construction workers work on construction sites.

Social convention (now and in the past) has been a primary reason for centralized offices. Cheap and improved office technologies have enabled some of this exodus to the home; however, most of my independent work doesn’t require an internet at all. (I write and teach, mostly for local organizations.)

Why do those of us who work in our heads outside of an office require a special name at all? Aren’t office workers really just a subset of knowledge workers?

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:04:35 +0000

If you’re “always-connected-but-not-always-in-the-office worker” you’re a slave.

I gave that up for ‘web working’ because – in my mind at least – that phrase implies some independence. You choose when and where you work, versus always being at work/on call.

The end result might be the same, long hours. But it’s a different mentality.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:30:35 +0000

Ok, read up, people, because I’m about to make up another word and I hope this time it catches, not like the other words I’ve made up over the years and that nobody ever uses.

I’m going to say we should be called “ether crafters”.

I was also thinking about “ethilic flunkies” but could be misinterpreted.

By: Christie

Christie — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:11:03 +0000

So they get the credit for coining the new “it” web worker buzzword, and the winner gets less than two grand worth of gear?

Makes me glad that I can’t enter anyways.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:19:11 +0000

“Please do not proceed if you are not a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States or DC”

Yeah well… there you go… And i had just the best word ever! :)