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Sausage damnit!
By RickMeasham | September 21, 2007
The term ‘bacn’ was coined by the folks at PodCamp Pittsburgh and is on the rise as a term for email that isn’t spam, but it isn’t ham. PodCamp considers email notifications from Facebook, Jaiku, Flickr, etc. to be ‘bacn’. You want to get the notificiations so it isn’t spam. But then, the messages aren’t that exciting so they’re not really ham.
Bacn is the wrong term.
Bacon is the king of porcine produce. Bacon is smoked, fried, savored. If someone offered me ham or bacon, I’d take the bacon every day. Almost everyone I’ve spoken to has the same reaction. There is no better way to eat pig than thick slices of double smoked bacon. So why on earth would PodCamp decide that it was the right word for messages that come between ham and spam?
I don’t know, but I plan to stop it.
These message should be called ‘Sausage’. A pork sausage is still an enjoyable way to eat pig, but it’s grissly and made from the parts of the pig you’d prefer to not talk about (seriously, if you ever try a saussage made from prime-cuts, you’ll hate it!)
A sausage, like notification email, is nice. But it isn’t the best. It’s not full of useful or enjoyable information, gossip or photos from friends, but is made by a machine to tell you something you may or may not overly care about.
From now on, I plan to append the words “Sausage Damnit!” to any posts I see that relate to so called ‘Bacn’.
Please join me (and feel free to link it to this article if you don’t want to write your own!)
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