Bacn- A New Internet Term
When you receive email that Geek is now following you on Twitter and Jennifer Gold just wrote on your Facebook wall, that’s bacn (pronounced “bacon”). It’s any email you receive that isn’t spam, but isn’t exactly a personal message either. Your electronic phone bill is bacn. Your Google alerts are bacn.
Bacn. It’s better than spam.
Disclaimer: I had nothing to do with coming up with this term. This was something some of the folks at PodCamp Pittsburgh came up with. I’m not sure who started it. Andy Quayle, Tommy Vallier, Jesse Hambley, and I don’t know who else were at Ground Zero of the discussion.
**UPDATE: Andy Quayle wrote about it last night and he told me that, and then I forgot.
Bacn. Pass it on.
Photo Credit, minjungkim
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It’s already the eleventh google result for “bacn” (the first ten pointing to acronyms). Who says you can’t change the English language in a weekend? :-)
I saw that term floating around Twitter for the last few days, now I know what it means :) Everything suddenly makes sense.
I walked into the think tank session near the registration table of Podcamp Pittsburgh (PCPGH2) where this term was gestating. It was truly an awesome thing to witness. Kind of like making sausage.
Oops. Sausage is going to be Web 3.0.
hahaha I was in that session also today. THIS is what Podcamp is about. What started as an idea in a hallway turned into a room full of people brainstorming on what could be a great thing.
No fakn’ the bacn Brogan!
I switched to gmail 100% for it’s bacn management. Everything else let me deal with it, but only after it hit my inbox and I was notified.
Gmail filters let me skip the inbox (and the notification popup), so I can have heaps of bacn coming in, and only have to deal with it when I want.
Glad you posted this… I start feeling totally un-geeklike when everyone on twitter is talking about something I’ve never heard of, again.
Has a verb form of bacn been discussed? “Stop bacn-ing me” sounds a little, well, off… and “Netflix is a pretty big bacn-er” doesn’t quite work for me either. I’d like to propose “bacnize” - as in “I need to turn those notifications off, because Pownce is bacnizing me like crazy.”
Is Canadian bacn larger and round? American bacn tends to just be emails with links in it, after all. Maybe Canadian bacn has more substance to it?
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As I twittered, I am a VEGETARIAN, so Bacn won’t work for me :) I will settle for TOFU — Mail that needs action, but not anytime soon. TOFU = To Follow Up.
What does Web 2.0 have against vowels, anyway?
Oh, sorry:
Wht ds Wb 2.0 hv gnst vwls, nywy?
How about calling it ‘Vowls’ instead?
“Vowls: we know we need ‘em, we just don’t like ‘em.”
Spam and Sprouts?
“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.’ ”
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/08/19/bacn-the-new-web-2-0-term/
Chris, where is the “share on facebook” app for your blog posts. I want to share this on facebook, but there’s no button to do that.
help?
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Scapple would be a better name!
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Baloney! /web 2.0 = baln / (snicker) This type of e-mail is not crap. I love hearing that someone wants to add me as a friend or follower at a social network!
Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don’t eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I’d never know ’cause I wouldn’t eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That’s a filthy animal. I ain’t eat nothin’ that ain’t got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces.
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If we all weren’t so busy being clever in the self-referential ego chamber [and credit to Mr.ERMurrow for that], we’d all answer email as it arrived or sort it appropriately and be done with it.
But then we also might not have any of those really-stupid-if-you-think-about-them words such as “proactive” and “impact” (for “effect” OR “affect”) and “stakeholder” and “friending” and anything N-point-zero. What would a world without them be?
There’s evolution, and there’s regression. I’d suggest that anything that makes a bunch of tech folks look laughable may well be the latter.
Back to the uphill battle,
-L.
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It’ll be interesting to see if/how development changes accordingly. Feels like something has to give …. - R
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There was a write up about this in the Toronto Star on Sunday.
http://www.thestar.com/article/249848
Way to go Podcamper’s!
# Jeffrey Sass on August 20th, 2007 10:05 am
As I twittered, I am a VEGETARIAN, so Bacn won’t work for me :) I will settle for TOFU — Mail that needs action, but not anytime soon. TOFU = To Follow Up.
SPAM, awful-nobody wants it
TOFU, the middle class email TO Follow Up we want
it just probably not Now.
Personal eMail, We love it! Anytime, anyplace.
What about this time not another
meat/manufactured meat term for this?
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Sweet!
I know I’ve made it when I have my name mentioned in the Brogan Blog