Mike, I couldn't find the specific origin of the +1 but I've seen it around as an (obvious) short-hand and mostly in the back and forth of somewhat techietalk email discussions of the Slashdot, Cluetrain variety,...
It has been around for years as I recall and I've only seen it in the above types of context although my guess is that being simple, obvious and efficient it is something that will spread (meme-like). M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 6:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] [META] Re: FW: Google Art Project In response my follow-up to Pete's post re. garbled text, Mike G. wrote: +1 I've seen this elsewhere recently, apparently as a terse indicator of approbation. Would someone kindly clue me in as to the origin of this usage? Is this a facebookism? From TV reality shows? Games? Surely not a direct offspring of Orwell's "double-plus-good". Some little channel of current culture that hasn't made it into trogldyte's cave... [mutter] ObFW: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-k indle-in-the-usa/ (Part 1 with links to parts 2, 3 & 4) The Gostak distims the Doshes, - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
