8th
May
We’ve reached 4,000 redefined words! Thank you so much everybody for making this project work! We really appreciate all your support, we couldn’t have had the success so far without everyone who has bought words and blogged about us.
Special thanks to the purchaser of word number 4,000 who redefined ‘Luggage‘.
We look forward to reaching 5,000 and beyond!
Thanks - to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to.
7th
May
Here’s another great site submitted to The Big Word Project. The new definition of the word ‘Plain‘, is Seanaes.com, the portfolio site for Sean Salmon. Sean describes himself as an “Interaction Designer, Creative Technologist, and recovering Architect” and his work is fantastic!
His projects are fascinating and range from social experiments to architectural designs. We especially like the Little Brother, Dollar, and Turno projects. We got a giggle out of the Dirty Colours project as well because we’re geeky, immature web designers. 
As we are all about the simplistic design here at The Big Word Project, Seanaes.com is a shining testament to simple design. His navigation system on his homepage is really unique and his lack of unneccesary clutter allows his impressive work to speak for itself. It is quite appropriate that his site is the new definition of the word ‘Plain‘. Have a look through his projects and be inspired!
Plain - with little or no embellishment, decoration, or enhancing elaboration.
6th
May
The guys behind OutsideSource.com redefined the word ‘Outside‘ to point to their really sweet site. Paddy has fallen in love with their little pully tab thingy. It’s so much fun to pull it out and watch it spring back. Go on, have a go!
Apart from the hours of fun supplied by the springy tab, the site is also really well laid out and you can find information on their projects and services really quickly. They also have a great video showcasing what they do and proclaiming their matra ‘Go Outside’. In fact Paddy is going to take their advice and go to the park right now!
Great site guys!
Outside - the space without or beyond an enclosure, institution, boundary.
3rd
May
Find, your, dorky, matchmaker, matchmaking, relationship, personals, romance, nerds and matching all mean one thing. Find Your Geek is a dating website dedicated to nerds searching for their true love who shares their interests in Star Trek, comic books, CSS or whatever it may be. Paddy is sourcing dates as we speak!
Trekkie - An avid fan of Star Trek science fiction, television shows and films
28th
Apr
We stumbled upon this site through the word ‘Zephyr‘. KC Dyer has come up with a neat way of having fun with her words. She has made cool little sentences on her blog using the words she has purchased.
We love stuff like this. Anyone else done anything creative with their words?
Remember you can add your word to your website using our widget. Just include the following Javascript code where you want your word to appear. Just replace MY_WORD with your word.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.thebigwordproject.com/widget/word/MY_WORD"></script>
Your word will look something like this:
Widget - a small mechanical device, as a knob or switch, esp. one whose name is not known or cannot be recalled
24th
Apr
We search through all the redefined words at The Big Word Project to see what interesting sites are out there and the new definition of the word caught our eye. It’s a really interesting project called 10,000 People by Arlan, where she is raising money to launch a magazine, and she is doing it by meeting 10,000 people in person!
What a great idea! It’s a really interesting social experiment, imagine the range of people she is going to meet with this experiment! Arlan is accepting donations at tenthousandpeople.com and you can also get really nice ‘World Citizen‘ Tshirts there. I just bought one, looking forward to it coming!
So check out the site and support Arlan in her quest to meet 10,00 people!
Meet - to join at an agreed or designated place or time
23rd
Apr
We were lunchtime guests today on UTV’s U105 radio station with Lynda Bryans. The interview went really well so thanks to Lynda and the team. Exciting stuff getting on the radio!
Radiogenic - Suitable for broadcasting by radio
23rd
Apr
Thanks to Jenny Block who gave us a good writeup on The Big Word Project in The Huffington Post. Read the article.
Block - a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces
22nd
Apr
The Big Word Project has been featured in the latest issue of WIRED Magazine, which is fantastic!
A big thanks to Matthew who did the story! It’s great! You can read the article by clicking below.
We can’t wait until the magazine is released over here (UK) so we can get a look at it. Also a big thanks to James Ellerker who took the photos. It was great working with you and Stuart. We really appreciate it.
Article - a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine
20th
Apr
We are just back from the Future of Web Design conference in London. Well, what an experience it was! The conference was really interesting and we picked up some great tips from speakers including Paul Boag, Larissa Meek, Andy Clarke, Andy Budd, Elliot Jay Stocks, Jina Bolton, Jon Hicks and Daniel Burka. We got to pick the brains of a few of them during the various parties, which was great. They are actually real people and really dead on!
We must say we really enjoyed the free bar at the welcome party, sponsored by Media Temple, which the majority of us took advantage of. So thanks to all the guys at Carsonified! Looking forward to the next one, who knows we might even make it to the NY one…if the bar is free.
We were really surprised at the amount of twittering going on there, everybody was at it constantly on their iPhones. Paddy felt embarrassed to get his trusty old Nokia out in public. People were really obsessed with twittering, posting updating every 2 seconds. By the end of the day we expected to read ‘just breathed in, breathed out again…’
We now have a new found love for twittering though, it’s quite addictive. You can follow what The Big Word Project is up to with it’s very own twitter feed.
Twittering -To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises