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Bacn, the new web 2.0 term
This one's hot off the presses, so we're still deciding on the lame factor. It seems we have a new term in Web 2.0 land, 'bacn'.Brought to light at the recent Pittsburgh Podcamp event, the term is being described as "notifications you want, just not right now." It is in regards to all the special email newsletters and notification we sign up to. Even though you're expecting them and love the content, now is just not a good time to read them - but you want to; you just don't have time right now.
What does DLS think about this term? We're still deciding, but it's a little confusing since bacon is commonly referred to as money. Our proposal would be more along the lines of: 'brusselsprout - good under some conditions.'
UPDATE: Chris Brogan has more insight on Bacn here.
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Neil Cauldwell said 6:50PM on 8-19-2007
"notifications you want, just not right now."
How about 'notinows' or 'notnows'?
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Chris Gilmer said 6:52PM on 8-19-2007
Much better than bacn!
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David Chartier said 7:17PM on 8-19-2007
How about 'latrz'
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Chris Gilmer said 7:34PM on 8-19-2007
How about 'nothing'. Do we really need a term for that?
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R said 8:28PM on 8-19-2007
Is a new buzzword necessary? I think most people already have a word for low priority e-mails. It's called the Trash folder. :-)
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Chris Brogan said 9:25PM on 8-19-2007
I'm totally a fan of bacn. Why? Because there's a word for spam. What would you not call that? There wasn't a term for that a while back. And now there is. See? If I say spam, you don't think a canned meat product from Hormel.
That's all. : )
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Andy said 9:32PM on 8-19-2007
Sure! Why not?
Like said above. There's 'Spam' and countless other terms.
bacn works for me.
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Chris Gilmer said 9:29PM on 8-19-2007
Chris Brogan - you made a good point there. I'm just not sold on 'bacn' as the word yet. Maybe it will grow on me. Brogan has more insight on the term here: http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/bacn-a-new-internet-term/
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james 42 said 10:36PM on 8-19-2007
The problem with bacn is that if it is not important enough to deal with right now, it is trash and you know you won't get back to it. So, as stated above, we already have the word trash.
And the reason this is different from the reason for the word spam is that there are ways to deal with emails you know you should just delete but don't. You can star it, check, shunt it to another 'later' folder, or any number of other ways to put off throwing it out. But spam needed its own word because it needed a new action, not just deleting it, but identifying it as junk mail to strengthen the automatic junk/spam filter.
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 9:04AM on 8-20-2007
Yeah, but who wants to eat cold bacon?
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Chris Brogan said 10:43AM on 8-20-2007
But it's not trash. It's "Jon is now following you on Twitter." It's "Jessica wrote a note on your Facebook wall." It's stuff that requires an action. Just nothing pressing.
Just for clarity.
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James said 3:27PM on 8-20-2007
I get weekly ad emails from some of the online stores I bought stuff from -- Meritline, Buy.com, etc. -- which actually do have really good bargains from time to time (FAR or cheap + free shipping), so I stay subscribed. But sometimes, I just want read "real" email, e.g. not what they're calling "bacn" here. I'm not sure we need a new term -- if anything, a term describing what I just said, the email that's most important, would be more helpful? The web 2.0 version of "pork" would be "prk", right? Not as obvious as bacn, though, plus "pork" has some bad connotations. Ham --> hm? Don't want to overload that one. I guess it's back to the drawing board...
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Michelle MacPhearson said 6:24PM on 8-20-2007
I think we do need a term for this kind of communication, I just don't know what Bacn is it. :-)
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Mosley said 11:04AM on 8-21-2007
Say NO to Bacn, say yes to scrapple!
http://www.mrbaconpants.com/bacn-needs-to-be-stopped/
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Charles said 7:42PM on 8-23-2007
Now thats classic. AWESOME.
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