Comments on: bacn – how it all got started

By: Andrew Badera

Andrew Badera — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:57:12 +0000

Andrew is not upset, I just think it’s hard to take new media, and its citizen participants, seriously when we hump this sort of thing out of darkness into an artificial web 2.0 spotlight. If you were looking to prove the power of web 2.0 to generate and propagate a meme, congrats, you did it. Value to society: zero, or negative, just like spam itself.

By: Norm H

Norm H — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:47:11 +0000

Can I just interject that The Art Institute of Pittsburgh taunts itself as the College for Creative minds. Even people who aren’t students seem to keep it real.

By: spoon

spoon — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:03:38 +0000

I think that Mr. Badera just needs a free Brogan hug!

I was in the bacn session and I have to say that what happened in that room was pretty amazing. You figure that a hallway conversation hours earlier would not only spawn a session but without a new buzz word within a day. This is one reason why I love PodCamp… anything can happen in an instant.

cheers!

By: Mosley

Mosley — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:59:25 +0000

I will have to agree… the term Bacn is something we can live without. I wrote a post telling the world that mrbaconpants want to make a stand against bacn.

http://www.mrbaconpants.com/bacn-needs-to-be-stopped/

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:03:08 +0000

I find it amusing at least, and have blogged about it here in Vancouver

By: Justin Kownacki

Justin Kownacki — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:55:15 +0000

Funny how serious some people are about their web terminology — or how they think they can stamp a word out just because they believe it’s “lame.”

That’s the beauty of the web: in the end, your opinion may (or may not) matter, but you’re still free to express it. Cheers for conversations, and for the ability to coin a term and watch the armchair linguists of the world rally to debate.

By: val

val — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:24:39 +0000

Sorry this has you so upset, Andrew. It’s really something that needs to be taken a little more lightly.

It was a google blog search I was talking about, btw.(It’s linked above) A straight up google search won’t give the same results.

By: Susan Reynolds

Susan Reynolds — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:22:57 +0000

Great story and thanks to Chris Brogan for passing it on to the part of the twitterspere I’m tuned into. From a clever conversation it’s gone around the world and turned into all day chatter about non personal email from Geologists= Quakn, Gardener = Rakn etc.

Fabulous material for all of us to work with. Thanks!

By: nimble2

nimble2 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:15:09 +0000

Mmmmm bacn

By: Andrew Badera

Andrew Badera — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:58:51 +0000

Lame. You’re doing nothing more than spamming the English language with this “bacn” term. This is pointless — not to mention artificial. Get over yourselves, guys.

PS When I Google “bacn” I don’t get your results — the top 2/3 of my page shows completely unrelated results. Ego check, aisle one.