confussion

Incoherent mental state resulting from a severe blow to the head, or an equally debilitating emotional shock.

"Jim was really into the concert last night, head-banging till dawn. He's suffering from confussion, and won't want any breakfast."

"OMG! Sharee went ape-shit when Billy bailed on her. The whole thing's left her with a ginormous confussion."

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technorati

1. People who are highly knowledgeable about technology, especially digital technology such as computing (IT) and communications (together, ICT). A portmanteau word, "technorati" combines "technical" and "literati".

Singular: technorat.

Synonyms: technoscenti.

Antonyms: newby, luser.

2. An Internet tool and website intended for such people: capitalised as "Technorati".

Joe's one of the technorati - he wrote the book on the Unix Korn shell.

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digiterati

1. People who consider themselves the literati of the digital age.
2. Arty geeks, as distinct from technorati or tech-head geeks like script kiddies.

Singular form: digiterat. Cf. technorat.

Joe's one of the technorati - he dreams about scripts to bulk change Unix permissions. But the digiterati are people like Mary. She's so cool she uses her iPhone to photograph a politician giving a speech, downloads and runs an app to morph it into a damaging caricature, and uploads it to Wikileaks before he's finished talking - all while tweeting about it and drinking a chai latte.

neo-con

1. A new "con", or "confidence trick", intended to deceive or rob innocent people.
2. Any person who uses such tricks.
3. A digital Matrix effective at duping Neo.

A: My father used to bamboozle us all with big words. But I learnt to blind my kids with science. Now my son baffles his kids with statistics.

B: That's so last week! The neo-con blind-sides the digiterati with vitriolic tweets and a blog about success backed by his YouTube degrees.

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