content-free: adj. [by analogy with techspeak `context-free']
Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge.
Though this adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it more
usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form
over substance or are centered on concerns irrelevant to the subject
ostensibly at hand. Perhaps most used with reference to speeches by
company presidents and other professional manipulators.
"Content-free? Uh... that's anything printed on glossy paper."
(See also four-color glossies.) "He gave a talk on the
implications of electronic networks for postmodernism and the
fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It was content-free."
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