We all know what spam is by now, the digital variety, not the gelatin-coated mystery meat in a tin. The attendees of PodCamp2 in Pittsburgh have coined the term bacn to describe “email you want, but not right now”.
Examples of bacn:
- Social network alerts
- Electronic bill pay alerts
- Basically anything you solicited by providing your email that is not a personal message
Of course in true 2.0 fashion, bacn cannot be spelled correctly because there already is a Bacon. You know the one. Oh yeah, and some meat too. What do vegetarians and vegans think of this meat-naming movement? I think tofu would have done nicely instead. Plus, it’s correctly spelled. Let’s start the tofu not bacn movement.
Anyway, bacn can’t be for real yet because:
- It has no Wikipedia entry.
- The Triad of Truth (Arrington, Om Malik, Scoble) haven’t acknowledged it as newsworthy yet.
- It’s not on Techmeme.
- It wasn’t coined in the Valley.
LOLcat sez: Srsly. Bacn r 4 reel. All ur bacn r belong 2 us.
Surely it should be ‘tfu’ or even better ‘tof’ or just ‘u’ or ‘tu’ for the French audience same thing.
Surely it should be ‘tfu’ or even better ‘tof’ or just ‘u’ or ‘tu’ for the French audience same thing.
LOLcat sez: DO NOT WANT TFU!
LOLcat sez: DO NOT WANT TFU!
You’ll have to get the domain oracleabbslap.com
dealing with what all that bacn will do to your abbs database, of course.
You’ll have to get the domain oracleabbslap.com
dealing with what all that bacn will do to your abbs database, of course.
Joel, I read that at least 10 times, and on the 11th, I finally got it. Now, I have a headache.
Jake
Joel, I read that at least 10 times, and on the 11th, I finally got it. Now, I have a headache.
Jake
i think i am seeing this post late, but now at this time Bacn is included in wikipedia.