- Wordia
Wordia is an online visual dictionary which has the published aim of 'redefining the dictionary'. It asks members of the public and celebrity 'orators' to upload videos explaining what words mean to them. The videos are then published on the site alongside the traditional textual definition sourced from the Collins English Dictionary. [cite web | url=http://www.wordia.com/who_are_we | title=Who Are We | accessdate=2008-10-02 | publisher=Wordia]
The site was founded in 2008 by TV producer Ed Baker, backed by the online entrepreneur
Michael Birch [cite web | url=http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/09/18/birch-backs-wordia-a-video-dictionary-oh-yes/ | title=Birch backs Wordia - a video dictionary? Oh yes.
date=2008-09-18 | accessdate=2008-10-02 | publisher=TechCrunch ] and launched at the house of Doctor Johnson, the man behind the first modern dictionary. [cite web | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2008/sep/18/digitalmedia?gusrc=rss&feed=media | title=Dictionary site Wordia enlists celebs' help | accessdate=2008-10-02 | date=2008-09-18 | publisher=The Guardian ]Its founders and others have extoled the benefits of having different dictionaries for different audiences. [ cite web | url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article4805001.ece | title=Power to the people | date=2008-09-23 | accessdate=2008-10-02 | publisher=
Times Online ] [ cite web | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article4798713.ece | title=Johnson would use online dictionaries | date=2008-09-22 | accessdate=2008-10-02 | publisher=Times Online ] Some parties in the UK have argued Wordia's democratic approach will undermine the quality of the definitions. [ cite web | url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/video-dictionary-word-wide-web-947248.html | title=Video dictionary: Word wide web
date=2008-10-01 | accessdate=2008-10-02 | publisher=The Independent ]References
External Links
[http://www.wordia.com Wordia]
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