Partially, but I was thinking more along the lines of when people new to DH or THATCamp hear things over and over again that the veterans know well, but aren’t obvious to newcomers, like any number of acronyms or places/centers. I want people to be able to tweet, e.g., “What is this ‘Myth’ place that people keep talking about? #THATCamp #jargon”, and have people reply with twitter-sized answers. Kind of like a short, on-demand, tweeted footnote to the current conversation.

Perhaps what you’re seeing here, Patrick, is a need for a community resource, along the lines of Lisa Spiro’s / Project Bamboo’s DiRT? I know that my colleague Roger Whitson has been trying to get his feet wet with topic modeling recently, but has had trouble finding even a good, basic definition that he could use in a workshop.

But, once they are on, and you have some tweeple committed to defining jargon, that will be good for instant answers, especially during an event. It will also be a good way to get newbies used to the idea of twitter as backchannel, if you help define terms during a talk or session.