August 19, 2007 135 Comments

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.

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LEMills

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.
Linda Mills

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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BACN: The best buzzword money can buy!
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BACN: The best buzzword money can buy!
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I notified the Activerain bunch of the new “buzz word”.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/185435/Bacn-is-Like-Spam
http://www.blogcalabasas.com Tracey Thomas

I notified the Activerain bunch of the new “buzz word”.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/185435/Bacn-is-Like-Spam
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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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It’ll be interesting to see if/how development changes accordingly. Feels like something has to give …. – R
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Man this thread makes me hungry
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Man this thread makes me hungry
http://www.digitalmediaTORONTO.com Mike Allan

There was a write up about this in the Toronto Star on Sunday.

http://www.thestar.com/article/249848

Way to go Podcamper’s!
http://www.digitalmediaTORONTO.com Mike Allan

There was a write up about this in the Toronto Star on Sunday.

http://www.thestar.com/article/249848

Way to go Podcamper’s!
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# 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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# 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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http://www.ambitonline.com/nextrelease/ Alan Langford

This term begs for a reverse acronym. How about BACN: Bland Automated Community Notifications?
http://www.ambitonline.com/nextrelease/ Alan Langford

This term begs for a reverse acronym. How about BACN: Bland Automated Community Notifications?
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