buzzkiller.net: pouring solvent on your "solution."

Journalists--
if you're sick of hearing and reading fatuous phrases in p.r. pitches and press releases, if you've realized that every brush with vapid verbiage robs your life of a little bit of meaning, drop us an e-mail with your nominations for the worst buzzwords and phrases in circulation.

P.R. professionals--
if it galls you to write releases containing such stuff, or if you say things like "our best-of-breed turnkey solutions are robust and highly scalable" only through clenched teeth, if you think there's a place in p.r. work for clear, descriptive, specific language, e-mail your nominations as well.

With a few submissions,
we'll be able to identify and rank the rankest words and phrases in circulation as well as reproduce some examples of plain terrible usage and all-around foolishness. Together, with dedication, pointed scorn and clear thinking, we can -- we must -- stem this rampant epidemic of worthless words.

The Buzz Saw's mission is primarily educational. The principals of buzzkiller.net (an entity not affiliated with Forbes, Fortune or Soldier of Fortune) have created a rob*st, inter*ctive, turnk*y buzzword-reduction soluti*n that is both Net-centr*c and Web-en*bled.

The Buzz Saw started in 1997 as a hand-tooled email filter that read incoming email and rejected messages containing certain buzzwords and phrases. Then came the Web component in 1998, where the Red Worm posted some examples of the truly execrable work that was ever more frequently foisted upon him. In the summer of 1999, El Robusto came aboard and we re-designed the site. We were joined by eEZD in the fall. Just in time to help out with the e-Kwanzaa 1999 publicity blitz, Fight Club, an arch yet humorous Latin survivor and dilettante grammarian, threw in as well.

This here, by the by, is the long-awaited Buzz Saw 2.0. The cracking design and resplendent colouring of the site is the result of our frenzied collaboration with web design maven Eric Fickes of Cronometric.com.

Regarding reports that Buzz Saw principals have blackballed certain PR agencies:

Our coders have not yet completed the Buzz Saw's Java-based blackball feature, although we expect a beta in mid-Q4. Any pre-emptive blackballing is not the work of buzzkiller.net and may violate several patents buzzkiller.net has pending.

In English,

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