Clever Title Goes Here

A Blog, rather a IREM

Blogs

So this is my Blog.

I do not like blogs, at least the name, blog, sounds to trendy, too froofy. I also do not like the word podcast, sounds like some sort of process involved in fishing with aliens.
IMHO (click for definition) Names of computer technologies should obscure what is actually going on, but should convey a clever masculine intrigue. An example is BASH, which when expanded from its acronym is Bourne Again SHell, which still does not let the neophyte know what it is, (which insures job security), but it sounds like something manly, something Chuck Norris might use. Other favoriate computer names are: ash, vim, awk, apt, zip, rss, cvs, DOS, GIF, C++, PL1, (three letters ensures optimal confusion) ssh, ping, daemon, ASCII, EBDIC,  http, ajax, telnet, apache, dd, kill, man, and because I'm a sucker for recursive acronyms GNU and lame.

Lets look at the history of personal expression on the net.
First there were .plan (dot plan) files.
Predating the world wide web a .plan file was a file which was requested by the finger command (note the cool name).  They were plain text, and used to tell your current plans, and thoughts. But they did not keep past information or allow comments Next comes
Geocities, tripod, lycos, etc. personal websites.
In a sea of contrasting colors, blinking text, and animated gifs, people could finally express themselves and their cat in a way the whole world could see. If you could find the guest book link you could leave your comments.
Now we have blogs, podcasts, myspace, and all the other WEB 2.0 phenomenon.

So what should we call blogs so they do not sound so lame?
.plan2.0 ,Geocities TNG, quadpod?
My suggestion is:
IREMvHP :Interactive Random Exhobitionist Musings via the Hypertext Protocal
or IREM for short pronounced either (irem) or I-rem if you need to be trendy.

So this is the first post in my IREM

posted by: nictitator at 21:04 | link | comments (8) |

Comments:

#1  07 September 2006 - 01:57

 

Not bad Winker. You're funny in cyperspace too.

holwayct

#2  07 September 2006 - 02:46

 

I concur! You got me to chuckle... pretty good, dude.

aslanshalo

#3  10 September 2006 - 11:13

 

For maximum cool points you should capitalise it Steve Jobs style: iRem

"Hey guys, today I used AJAX to podcast my latest syndicated life-hacking RSS stream straight from my e-mail, through my iPod and Flickr, where it was Googled and ended up on somebody else's iRem"

That's pure Web 2.0 that is.

Anonymous

#4  16 September 2006 - 20:29

 

Very nice. But are you sure you like BASH more than TCSH or ZSH?

Anonymous

#5  19 September 2006 - 03:23

 

BASH is my shell of choice, although I'm thinking of switching to FISH, but its name lacks the umph of BASH

nictitator

#6  05 October 2006 - 15:32

 

FISH not umphy enough? Why not create an alias such as 'ICBM' or 'I8TOKYO'?

What of the tried and true XTERM? It's like you're trying to extinguish the terminated, or perhaps exiting a terminal. Maybe exporting a term (is this the same as verbal speech?). Which gets me thinking, why was there an ability in FF called XFER - what did that stand for?

Hmm...

-your driver for Awakening '05

Anonymous

#7  05 October 2007 - 15:37

 

When you mention .plan files, you're forgetting that folks would embed them with VT control codes, so you could end up with blinking, colorful, musical (if you call BEL "music"), ASCII art expressions of folks' cats... ;^)

Anonymous

#8  08 October 2007 - 01:19

 

A techie man of the cloth?

Excellent. There is nothing like programming to let a mortal know even one percent of G-d's troubles.

Pooklekufr

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