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Buzzword Ipsum (buzzwordipsum.com)
57 points by nns on June 2, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 17 comments


Works impressively well. Generates premium quality corporate-site-ready bullshit and throws in small gems of pure absurd like "Efficiencies will come from intelligently offshoring our low hanging fruit"


Looks like it harvests its gems from here

https://twitter.com/buzzwordipsum


Other way around, actually - there's a little ruby bot that grabs stuff from the site's API. :)


The real hazard is that the output may be indistinguishable from your content, making it difficult to recognize as a placeholder...


The real hazard is when it's indistinguishable even after you've read both.


Excellent. When you put these buzzwords together like this, you realise how ludicrous and inflated they sound (and often meaningless too). And let's face it, the tech world is as guilty as any other when it comes to inflated language over plain speaking. Related article on corporate guff (from 2014)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25652101


>> And let's face it, the tech world is as guilty as any other when it comes to inflated language over plain speaking

I would say even more so ;-)


A friend and I made this :D If anyone wants to suggest any new buzzwords... https://github.com/inversion/buzzword-ipsum


What's the license on that codebase?


Related: Corporate Bullshit Generator [1]

[1] http://cbsg.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/live


Had an argument with my boss about "copying texts from othe companies websites to our prototype website". I tried to explain what this text really was, he did not approve off the name.


In the running with http://hipsum.co/ for my favorite filler text now!


Good news, my weekly status report is now complete!


"Ethically touching base about monetizing enterprises will make us leaders in the world-class core competency industry."

My sides!


Scott Adams would find this useful I think.


Seems to be a bug where it will only show paragraphs not words. Maybe that's part of the buzzword joke?


Hahaha this is amazing, great job!




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