Mmm, bacn
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.
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August 24th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Surely it should be ‘tfu’ or even better ‘tof’ or just ‘u’ or ‘tu’ for the French audience same thing.
August 24th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Surely it should be ‘tfu’ or even better ‘tof’ or just ‘u’ or ‘tu’ for the French audience same thing.
August 24th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
LOLcat sez: DO NOT WANT TFU!
August 24th, 2007 at 9:10 am
LOLcat sez: DO NOT WANT TFU!
August 27th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
You’ll have to get the domain oracleabbslap.com
dealing with what all that bacn will do to your abbs database, of course.
August 27th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
You’ll have to get the domain oracleabbslap.com
dealing with what all that bacn will do to your abbs database, of course.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Joel, I read that at least 10 times, and on the 11th, I finally got it. Now, I have a headache.
Jake
August 27th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Joel, I read that at least 10 times, and on the 11th, I finally got it. Now, I have a headache.
Jake
February 27th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
i think i am seeing this post late, but now at this time Bacn is included in wikipedia.