In the past, I’ve tried to link to Wikipedia for an explanation of the term “_screencast_”:2. Well, I’ve finally been able to do that, since a user recently posted the original entry for this term on the 13th of March, 2005. You can see this by looking at the “history”:3 view for Wikipedia term _screencast_.

Another recent entry to Wikipedia is the term “_podcasting_”:4, which was “created”:5 on the 2nd of Oct, 2004.

How about “_folksonomy_”:6? “Born”:7 on the 8th of Nov. 2004.

“Del.icio.us”:8? “Created”:9 September 1st, 2004.

Perhaps there is something to monitoring Wikipedia for new terms as they are “created”:10 and as they are “changed”:11… perhaps you can tap into trends very early in their lives?

[11(Wikipedia's recent changes page)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges

[10(Wikipedia's new terms page)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Newpages

[9(Original Del.icio.us entry on Wikipedia)]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Del.icio.us&oldid=5779908

[8(Wikipedia entry for Del.icio.us)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us

[7(Original folksonomy entry on Wikipedia)]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Folksonomy&direction=prev&oldid=7629254

[6(Wikipedia entry for folksonomy)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/folksonomy

[5(Original podcasting entry on Wikipedia)]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Podcasting&direction=prev&oldid=6313268

[4(Wikipedia entry for podcasting)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

[2(Wikipedia entry for screencast)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast

[3(Wikipedia history view of screencast entry )]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Screencast&action=history