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7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Good Tools Have Verb-Based Interfaces | Smarterware
"Thinking it through, I realized this category-based naming convention just doesn't align with my basic mental construct of what software is. Organizing items by category makes sense in libraries and bookstores, on restaurant menus, in music and movies—but not apps. An app isn't consumable media. An app is a tool. It helps you perform an action, to do something. Modern programming languages and APIs are verb-based (think MyObject->setName() and and HTTP's GET and POST), and the user interface should be, too. That's when I settled on a verb-based folder system."
via:coldbrain  organization  2012  software  langauge  actions  verbs  naming  tools  ginatrapani  iphone  ios 
february 2012 by robertogreco
A razor’s edge
"Listen closely to the “lesson I want to get across” at 6:31…”There is no opting out of new media…it changes a society as a whole…media mediates relationships…whole structure of society can change…we are on a razor’s edge between hopeful possibilities & more ominous futures….”

At min 8:14 Wesch describes what we need people to “be” to make our networked mediated culture work, and the barriers we are facing in schools. Wesch is right on. Corporate curriculum, schedules, bells, borders, & “teaching/classroom management” are easily assisted by technology. Yet to open learning & deschool our ed system represents the hopeful possibilities Wesch imagines & has acted on. What we accept from industrial schooling, how we proceed in our educational endeavors, & what we do, facilitate, witness, & promote in our actions in education mean so much to learners of today & the interconnected & interdependent systems we are all a part of."

[Love…"anthropologists want…to be children again"]

[Video is also here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyCAtyNYHw ]
michaelwesch  anthropology  children  perspective  perception  deschooling  unlearning  media  newmedia  papuanewguinea  thomassteele-maley  relationships  networkedlearning  networks  possibility  hope  education  unschooling  healing  justice  culture  unmediated  mediatedculture  ivanillich  criticaleducation  global  names  naming  learning  tcsnmy  lcproject  interconnectivity  interconnectedness  interdependence  society  changing  gamechanging  influence  mediation  hopefulness  future  openness  freedom  control  surveillance  power  transparency  deception  participatory  distraction  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Project Names and Borges Numbers
"Reporters do this sort of thing every day. It's neat, but not amazing. But when the consultant had finished his meeting, he said to himself, "Well, Walnut's a tree, it's something to eat ... and it's an exchange in the San Jose telephone directory." And he asked the first friend he encountered on his way out, "Say, what's the current status on BUtterfield?" And by the time he left the plant he knew all about Project Butterfield too, and how far over budget it was, and why it would never work either.<br />
Now, I'm not saying this story is true.. but it's one of my favorites.<br />
(I have often thought that it would be useful to create a list of names, chosen such that knowing one name on the list provided the least possible information about the rest of the list. We would, of course, call such an enumeration "Borges numbers," after the numbering scheme described in J. L. Borges' story "Funes the Memorious.")"
borges  naming  history  information  ibm  1995  via:migurski  funesthememorius  projectnames  secrecy  security  tomvanvleck  names  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
How Design Can Get Kids On the Path to Tech Careers | Co.Design
"whenever you say the word 'school,' it conjures up mental images & models of our experiences and behavior in a place -- & accompanying that 'place model' is a kaleidoscope of memories & emotions about how that place looked & worked -- how we felt in it, what was rewarded, celebrated & expected, & who we were supposed to be as learners in that place. Unfortunately, many of these mental models of how we should learn in school are completely at odds w/ how real learning happens & how it's demonstrated in the real world. False proxies for learning often erode our children's vibrant intellectual & creative potentials because they diminish the excitement of real learning & discovery. Everyone knows that finishing a course and a textbook does not mean achievement. Listening to a lecture does not mean understanding. Getting a high score on a high-stakes standardized test does not mean proficiency. Credentialing does not mean competency. Our children know it, too, yet it persists."
education  design  management  designthinking  learning  unschooling  discovery  deschooling  trungle  stephaniepacemarshall  imsa  illinois  chicago  science  math  gifted  talented  schools  schooldesign  credentials  credentialing  whatmatters  cv  ap  collaboration  teaching  challenge  interaction  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  problemsolving  criticalthinking  teacherasmasterlearner  teacherascollaborator  inquiry  inquiry-basedlearning  studentdirected  research  names  naming  language  words  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Name that Color - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag
colors  names  naming  color  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Caterina.net» Blog Archive » Children in the gulag
"Eugenia Ginzberg, who served eighteen years in the camps of Kolyma, wrote that when a camp of child prisoners was given two guard-dog puppies to raise the children at first could not think of anything to name them. The poverty of their surroundings had stripped their imaginations bare. Finally they chose names from common objects they saw every day. They named one puppy Ladle and the other Pail." —On the Prison Highway, Ian Frazier (New Yorker, August 30, 2010)
ianfrazier  gulag  children  imagination  experience  vocabulary  exposure  names  naming  pets  animals  dogs  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Lianablog - Your NPR Name [Don't forget Neda Ulaby.]
"Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.<br />
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In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita Jablonski. A David Kestenbaum or a Lakshmi Singh. Even (on our most ambitious days) a Cherry Glaser or a Sylvia Poggioli.<br />
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So finally, after years of Fresh Air sign-off ambitions, we came up with a system for creating our own NPR Names. Here’s how it works: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.<br />
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So I’m Liarna Kassel. And Eric is Jeric Bath. I even have a new nickname for my little brother in Dylsan Rosarita."<br />
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[Referenced on NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/04/whats_your_npr_name.html]
humor  generator  names  npr  radio  games  classideas  naming  writing  namegenerators  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Where ‘America’ really came from - The Boston Globe
"The naming-of-America passage in “Introduction to Cosmography” is rich in precisely the sort of word play Ringmann loved. The key to the passage is the curious name Amerigen, which combines the name Amerigo with the Greek word gen, or “earth,” to create the meaning “land of Amerigo.” But the name yields other meanings. Gen can also mean “born,” and the word ameros can mean “new,” suggesting, as many Renaissance observers had begun to hope, that the land of Amerigo was a place where European civilization could go to be reborn — an idea, of course, that still resonates today. The name may also contain a play on meros, a Greek word sometimes translated as “place,” in which case Amerigen would become A-meri-gen, or “No-place-land”: not a bad way to describe a previously unnamed continent whose full extent was still uncertain."
names  naming  placenames  us  america  amerigovespucci  cartography  geography  history  gender  matthiasringmann  newworld  virgil  martinwaldseemüller  cosmography 
july 2010 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: Learning the Names of the World
"watching World Cup 2010...hoping we are slowly moving towards solving long-term pet peeve...Calling other nations by bizarre, antique, mis-names...works against international understanding...
english  geography  irasocol  classideas  language  languages  identity  naming  countries  cities  names 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Richard Feynman Quotes
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. "
richardfeynman  science  education  writing  culture  consciousness  brain  physics  doubt  uncertainty  knowledge  knowing  names  naming  understanding  tcsnmy 
june 2010 by robertogreco
greg.org: the making of: If You See Something, Say Something
"Do you find yourself wanting to talk about Group Zero, but the only names you can pronounce are Fontana and Klein [and Westwater]? Do you ever call galleries you're about to walk into, just to hear them say the artist's name? [I just asked at the desk, it's von HILE.]
art  artists  humor  names  pronunciation  reference  words  naming 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Eccentric Candidate Makes Waves In Colombia : NPR [Great story. Great name. More at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanas_Mockus]
"In Colombia, an eccentric former Bogota mayor may win the presidency. Antanas Mockus, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, is trying to succeed Alvaro Uribe, a U.S.-backed hard-liner who was prevented from running for a third term. However, Mockus, whose trademark is an Amish-style beard, is better known for his antics than his politics."
2010  antanasmockus  greatnames  names  eccentricity  colombia  elections  sergiofajardo  naming 
may 2010 by robertogreco
tantramar: Name = Search Term
"He didn't give me the title or artist of the track, merely what he had typed into Limewire to get it!...I gave him a blank look & he smiled, shrugged his shoulders, & went back to the mix. But what intrigued me was the idea of a potential paradigm shift in naming. What if there were so many things w/ names, so many artists, musicians, books, years of people not researching their names properly that everyone started doubling up. Your name actually becomes your search term. It's happening now but picture this is 30 years time. It could messy trying to find things right? So maybe finding things through their search terms instead of their given name would become practical...There might be more than 1 Charlie Gower living in Stoke Newington. But I doubt there are many country music listening, folk art collecting over-weight wannabe surfers who like sign painting living in N16...Of course to fight back against this trend parents will start naming children after mid 2000s WIFI passwords."
identity  naming  names  search  searching  searchterms  via:russelldavies  glvo 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Noticed - College Applicants Hide Behind Facebook Aliases - NYTimes.com
"For high school students concerned with college acceptance, Facebook presents a challenge. It encourages making public every thought and every photo, an opportunity for posturing and bravado nearly irresistible to teenagers. But this impulse for display clashes with the need to appear circumspect and presentable to college admissions agents, who some high school guidance counselors have warned are likely vetting applicants by trolling the Web...
facebook  identity  admissions  socialnetworking  names  online  privacy  education  internet  socialsoftware  colleges  universities  naming 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Learn How To Pronounce Names Correctly
howto  english  dictionary  audio  pronunciation  names  naming  hear 
april 2010 by robertogreco
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Real Timothy McSweeney.
"I was intrigued by the letters so much that I kept them in a drawer in my room, wondering if Timothy was actually related to us...When a new letter would arrive, she would hand it to me, usually without reading it. I would pore over it for clues, then would add it to the stack...So many years later, when I was conceiving a name for this literary journal, the name Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern occurred to me...made sense on many levels...honor my Irish side of the family & also allude to this mysterious man & the sense of possibility and even wonder he'd brought to our suburban home...Knowing that the journal bore the name of a real person who had endured years of struggle threw melancholy shadows over the enterprise. But the McSweeneys insisted that the use of the name was acceptable, even appropriate, given Timothy's background as an artist & search for connection & meaning through the written word. Since 2000 we've implicitly dedicated all issues to the real Timothy."
daveeggers  history  writing  fun  journalism  celebrity  obituary  mystery  mentalillness  glvo  names  naming  letters  correspondence  mcsweeneys  weird 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? | Video on TED.com
""There's a flip side to everything," the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect."
ted  dereksivers  maps  mapping  japan  india  health  medicine  culture  opposites  negativespace  streets  perspective  assumptions  inversion  music  africa  timing  westafrica  names  naming  wayfinding 
january 2010 by robertogreco
On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno | The Observer
"On the intensity of ideas: If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. You expect to be engaged with ideas strongly whether you are for or against them. If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture." + "On the naming of things: [...] that was music designed by leaving things out – that can be a form of innovation, knowing what to leave out. All the signs were in the air all around with ambient music in the mid 1970s, and other people were doing a similar thing. I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what it needed. A name. A name. Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it. By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important."
brianeno  cv  interview  art  technology  ambient  music  naming  names  catholicism  belief  identity  ideas  intensity 
january 2010 by robertogreco
A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News
"Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for “a clippy bit,” you know exactly what to hand him. GILES TURNBULL surveys a caucus of children and determines a common nomenclature."
culture  children  play  folksonomy  names  linguistics  words  taxonomy  language  writing  nomenclature  lego  slang  toys  glvo  edg  srg  naming 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Robin writes a book (and you get a copy) » Naming characters with Google AdWords — Kickstarter
"But okay, I'll be honest. This was mostly just an excuse to try a new tool. Any nerd will tell you that tools can provide their own intrinsic rewards. There's an aspect of exploration to it, too: you're pressing out into new tool-territory, learning about what you can and can't do."
google  adwords  research  writing  crowdsourcing  names  naming  kickstarter  marketing  process 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Small batch businesses [see also: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1807-seeking-a-less-pretentious-boutique]
"A few weeks ago, Matt Linderman asked the readers of 37signals' Signal vs. Noise blog for suggestions for a word or phrase to describe a certain type of small, focused company. ... Boutique was deemed too pretentious...small, indie, and QOQ didn't cut it either. Readers offered up craftsman, artisan, bespoke, cloudless, studio, atelier, long tail, agile, bonsai company, mom and pop, small scale, specialty, anatomic, big heart, GTD business, dojo, haus, temple, coterie, and disco business, but none of those seems quite right.
glvo  names  naming  language  smallbusiness  kottke  business  boutique  bespoke  startups  words  definitions  neologisms 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Warren Ellis » BERG
"I sort of accidentally named BERG. Because when Matt Jones laughingly asked me for company name suggestions, I said BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL ROCKET GROUP.
names  naming  berg  berglondon  schulzeandwebb  jackschulze  mattwebb  warrenellis  mattjones  future 
august 2009 by robertogreco
This is BERG – Blog – BERG
"Schulze & Webb Ltd isn’t the original name of the company. Schulze and I renamed an off-the-shelf company we bought in summer 2005...for a while the company was called Z.V.B. Ltd..."Zero Version Behaviour?” said Schulze’s dad...that particular company was formed 1 June 2005. I like that it pre-dates us, if only by a few weeks...summer of 2008 we began the Dayuejin. It’s important to name the eras of a company. It gives a sense of purpose, and of history. The Dayuejin is also known as the Great Leap Forward...To make the products we wanted, we needed more money petrol, which needed bigger projects, which needed more people & a bigger studio, which needed more money, which needed our own projects to build confidence. Everything had to move forward at once. It took a year, more or less, to find the right way to do it and lock it in. The current era started last week. It’s the Escalante, the Grand Staircase...This is an invention, strategy and new product development design company."
schulzeandwebb  berg  berglondon  design  jackschulze  mattwebb  mattjones  tomearmitage  change  evolution  growth  tcsnmy  glvo  agency  uk  business  gamechanging  naming  time  perspective  branding  names 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World - NYTimes.com
"We are, all of us, abandoning taxonomy...willfully...losing the ability to order & name & therefore losing a connection to & a place in the living world. No wonder so few of us can really see what is out there. Even when scads of insistent wildlife appear with a flourish right in front of us...we barely seem to notice. We are so disconnected from the living world that we can live in the midst of a mass extinction...rapid invasion...of new & noxious species, entirely unaware that anything is happening....changing all this...easy. Just find an organism...get a sense of it, its shape, color, size, feel, smell, sound...meditate, luxuriate in its beetle-ness, its daffodility...find a name for it. Learn science’s name...folk names...make up your own. To do so is to change everything, including yourself...once you start noticing organisms, once you have a name for particular beasts, birds & flowers, you can’t help seeing life & the order in it, just where it has always been, all around you."
via:preoccupations  taxonomy  language  observation  words  naming  names  nature  life  order  sustainability  earth  living  awareness  curiosity  engagement  learning  biology  science  tcsnmy  glvo  edg  srg  invention  meaning  connections  understanding  animals  plants 
august 2009 by robertogreco
WORDOID - Creative Naming Service
"Wordoid.com is a webapp that strives to help you invent a good name. It makes up new words. Automagically. It knows how to create words in English or Spanish. It even knows how to create words in an imaginary language, constructed by blending two or more real languages together."
names  naming  branding  brainstorming  domainnames  domains  words  generator  marketing  language  english  spanish  español  french 
august 2009 by robertogreco
The Facebook Saturday night masacree (Scripting News)
"the thing that strikes me as weirdest of all is that after years of insisting that people only use their real names on Facebook, they've now set up a system where it will be virtually impossible for most people to do that, even if they want to. If I cared more about Facebook, I'd have more to say about this. I wish this period of the Internet would end, it's so exactly like AOL. I've seen this show before, I know how it ends. Only this time there won't be a Time-Warner to cash them out."
davewiner  facebook  identity  naming  urls  2009  aol  via:preoccupations  names 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Why Your Baby’s Name Will Sound Like Everyone Else’s | Wired Science | Wired.com
"“What’s hard for parents is that what feels like your own personal taste, it’s everybody’s taste,” Wattenberg says. “It’s a no win situation - if you pick a name you like, probably everybody else will like it too.”
names  naming  parenting  society  culture  trends  children 
may 2009 by robertogreco
What Do You Do? Who Cares? - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect
"There are of course strong cultural, contextual and personal differences in the importance of defining and presenting oneself through a job title. ... Of course the role of the business card is also changing - in an interconnected world it becomes more of a tangible reminder, a conduit to the online you - where ever that may be, and with it - the age of the anonymous researcher is rapidly drawing to a close.
janchipchase  titles  importance  relationships  observations  businesscards  names  business  organizations  naming 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Baby Name Brainstorm
names  visualization  naming 
january 2009 by robertogreco
‘Place for learning’ days at Joanne Jacobs
"British schools are dropping the s-word — “school” — in favor of “place for learning” or “advanced learning centre,” reports the Times of London. Some secondary schools are renaming themselves “colleges” to sound “upmarket.”" ... "Here in the U.S., “academy” is the hot word, usually referring to a school for low-income students. I’d like to see more honesty in labeling: Let students choose between a school, a social center and penitentiary prep. I really think most would pick “school” if the choice was clear."
education  schools  naming  terminology  uk  us  learning  place  children  marketing  psychology  trends  names 
january 2009 by robertogreco
antonomasia: Definition from Answers.com
"a figure of speech that replaces a proper name with an epithet (the Bard for Shakespeare), official address (His Holiness for a pope), or other indirect description; or one that applies a famous proper name to a person alleged to share some quality associated with it, e.g. a Casanova, a little Hitler. Antonomasia is common in epic poetry: Homer frequently refers to Achilles as Pelides (i.e. son of Peleus)."
words  oratory  speech  names  naming 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Doctor Yellow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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via:russelldavies  trains  japan  shinkansen  yellow  doctoryellow  names  naming 
november 2008 by robertogreco
NameMapper: USA Baby Name Map, Most Popular Baby Names by State | The Baby Name Wizard
names  maps  mapping  visualization  geography  statistics  charts  us  babies  graphs  naming 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » "u" is the new "i"
"I visited Ewha university and they have some “U-Classrooms”, with “U” standing for Ubiquitous. Seems “U” is the new “i” (iPhone, iGoogle), which in its time was the new “e” (eBusiness, eLearning)."
trends  ubiquitous  ubicomp  mobile  computing  naming  namingschemes  future  korea  laurenthaug  names 
september 2008 by robertogreco
World Names Profiler
names  surnames  genealogy  geography  maps  mapping  statistics  demographics  naming 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Odd name changes
"Law professor Eugene Volokh rounds up some cases where courts ruled on unusual name changes (like Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii)."
names  naming  parenting  law  legal 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Our (and Your) RISD » Blog Archive » Text as Anti-Grafitti
"[Rafael Moneo] suggested that by simply putting the name of a building on a building … that the building would be less likely to be defaced...One might say in defense of objects left “un-texted” that they remain as free citizens without prejudice o
naming  architecture  design  graffiti  rafaelmoneo  identity  names 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Baby Name Trends: NameTrends.net
"see popularity trends for it: * Popularity since 1880 * Map of changing geographic popularity since 1960 * Well-known namesakes * Groups to which it belongs * Similar names: sound, popularity over time, regional popularity, and start with the same letter
names  statistics  trends  maps  visualization  via:kottke  naming 
july 2008 by robertogreco
BBC - Ouch! - Features - What's your Sign Name?
"When a sign name is given to you, it's special...thought up after intense period of observation...people have worked out whether they like you enough to give you one & taken all your habits & mannerisms into account to find a name that best sums you up."
language  culture  deaf  names  linguistics  psychology  behavior  community  asl  signing  via:kottke  naming 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Conceptual Trends and Current Topics - GoogleUnique Names
"two new strategies in naming children...names that work in as many languages & regions of world as possible...kind of esperanto names...GoogleUnique names...invented names, or combinations, which will yield singular results in a Google search"
names  naming  children  parenting  branding  search  google  language  identity  kevinkelly 
july 2008 by robertogreco
OneLook Dictionary Search
"Find words and phrases that start with/end with, have a meaning related to, words related to, related to the concept, contain the word, Find phrases that spell out an acronym + reverse dictionary"
dictionaries  language  search  reference  words  phrases  onlinetoolkit  linguistics  writing  generator  brainstorming  thesaurus  names  dictionary  naming 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Fortnightly Mailing: If ever you need new job title
"Here, courtesy of Tanya Schmoller are some professions recorded in the the Register of the Sheffield General Cemetry between 1836 and 1900."..among others: Pedestrian, Paper ruler, Scale presser, Motor man, Overlooker...
employment  history  careers  titles  work  via:preoccupations  language  names  naming 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Google your name, make a movie on what you find | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com
"In the case of a sometimes actor from Los Angeles named Jim Killeen, that search instinct not only led to at least 24 namesakes, but also to a documentary about his experiences tracking some of them down and visiting them around the world."
names  identity  internet  search  film  people  online  naming 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Names That Match Forge a Bond on the Internet - New York Times
"A feeling of connection between people with the same name is, in a way, little more than sharing an affinity for a brand — like two car owners who give each other friendly toots because they both drive Mini Coopers."
names  identity  via:adamgreenfield  internet  search  psychology  people  online  naming 
april 2008 by robertogreco
SameNameAsMe - Who do you share your name with?
"Search for other people around the world with the same name as you and contact them."
online  community  names  people  identity  naming 
april 2008 by robertogreco
IKEA accused of teasing Denmark - Gadling
"many pieces of furniture, like sofas, wardrobes and bookshelves, are named after places in Norway and Sweden. Denmark on the other hand gets stuck with doormats and carpets. Apparently this has caused a recent Danish uproar, blaming IKEA for naming produ
ikea  denmark  names  sweden  language  nationalpride  naming 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Wired News - Apostrophes in Names Stir Lot O' Trouble
"can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams...director of software development at Permission Data said the problem is sloppy programming."
grammar  names  punctuation  webdev  coding  forms  digitalpains  naming 
february 2008 by robertogreco
James Clark's Random Thoughts: Thai personal names
"I guess that historically the main reason for the dominance of given names in Thai culture is because family names are a relatively recent innovation: they were introduced by King Rama VI towards the beginning of the 20th century. Family names were alloc
i18n  culture  language  names  identity  thailand  thai  naming  programming  society  international 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Design Observer: What's in a name?
"If one is willing to expound, exclaim, or critique it should be done under a real name and with links to a valid email or website address. If transparency on the web is the new black, then there should be no secrets."
blogs  identity  commenting  anonymity  internet  web  culture  online  etiquette  reputation  names  naming 
december 2007 by robertogreco
travelling slowly: Unlucky Numbers
on the naming/numbering of Chile's regions
chile  geography  names  military  numbers  politics  superstition  naming 
december 2007 by robertogreco
How architecture firms name themselves. - By Witold Rybczynski - Slate Magazine
"over the last several decades architectural practices with names such as Mecanoo, UNStudio, and OMA have appeared—and that's just in Holland. What's going on?"
architecture  brand  design  history  names  naming  remkoolhaas  oma  amo 
november 2007 by robertogreco
David Byrne Journal: 11.03.2007: Social "Hateworking", Ikea
"Immediately I thought it was like entering a videogame world. Who lives here? What do they do? Why is that book on the table? Is that significant? Could it be some kind of clue to the occupant’s identity?"
ikea  words  names  videogames  play  experience  retail  davidbyrne  socialnetworking  furniture  shopping  diy  language  naming 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Purse Lip Square Jaw: Against disambiguation
ubicomp  naming  inspiration  disambiguation  ubiquitous  everyware  location-based  spimes  names 
october 2007 by robertogreco
onomastics: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
"1. a. The study of the origins and forms of proper names. 2. b. The study of the origins and forms of terms used in specialized fields. 2. The system that underlies the formation and use of proper names or terms used in specialized fields."
names  words  history  etymology  linguistics  english  specialization  naming 
september 2007 by robertogreco
hypocorism: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
"1. A name of endearment; a pet name. 2. The use of such names."
names  social  family  glvo  words  english  naming 
august 2007 by robertogreco
Exonym and endonym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"An exonym is a name for a place that is not used within that place by the local inhabitants, or a name for a people or language that is not used by the people or language to which it refers. The name used by the people or locals themselves is an endonym
language  location  place  geography  english  words  names  identity  glvo  naming 
august 2007 by robertogreco
exonym: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
"A name by which one people or social group refers to another and by which the group so named does not refer to itself."
language  location  place  geography  english  words  names  identity  glvo  naming 
august 2007 by robertogreco
Color + Design Blog / 32+ Common Color Names for Easy Reference by COLOURlovers
"we took the color names that are used most often and best guessed the appropriate colors based on web standards and common usage."
color  css  design  words  names  lists  graphics  html  facts  dictionary  webdesign  web  tools  resources  data  naming 
july 2007 by robertogreco
LEXIQUETOS
"Tu nombre en otros sistemas de escritura"
language  writing  names  spanish  reference  dictionary  translation  tools  español  japanese  chinese  hindi  arabic  naming 
june 2007 by robertogreco
The Baby-Name Business - WSJ.com
"Parents are feeling intense pressure to pick names that set their kids apart. Some are even hiring consultants. Alexandra Alter on the art of 'branding' your newborn."
identity  childhood  business  branding  marketing  markets  names  naming  parenting  sociology  society  culture 
june 2007 by robertogreco
Architectradure: You need a brand?
"A nice set of slides about branding a logo, a product or a company created by Neutronllc."
books  brands  branding  logos  design  names  naming  business  marketing  identity  cativaucelle 
june 2007 by robertogreco
Subtraction: Drawing for Memory
"As it turns out, this is a pretty effective way of remembering who’s who, provided I get some reasonable likeness of the person down."
drawing  memory  names  writing  remembering  culture  art  illustration  naming 
may 2007 by robertogreco
collision detection: Should you pick an unusual name for yourself -- so you'll be more Googleable?
names  identity  online  search  parenting  google  blogging  blogs  presence  web  internet  naming 
may 2007 by robertogreco
Venezuelan Parents Love a Famous Name - New York Times
"AS university students clashed with the police in this country last May, attention focused not just on their demands to hold elections without government meddling but also on the names of the two leaders organizing the protests: Nixon Moreno and Stalin G
names  venezuela  society  latinamerica  americas  naming 
january 2007 by robertogreco
Oxyrhynchus: "town of the sharp-snouted fish" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The town was named after a species of fish of the Nile River which was important in Egyptian mythology as the fish that ate the penis of Osiris, though it is not known exactly which species of fish this is. One possibility is a species of mormyrid, mediu
names  place  geography  glvo  greek  africa  egypt  words  language  translation  archaeology  museums  naming 
november 2006 by robertogreco
Instant Domain Search—Domain Name Search Tool
"Domain name availability—as fast as you can type."
brainstorming  branding  domains  domainnames  names  web  whois  onlinetoolkit  naming 
november 2006 by robertogreco
Mobile Opportunity: Good luck naming your phones, Nokia
"But there are several huge problems with using real words as product names."
design  marketing  technology  names  words  language  superstition  numbers  products  naming 
september 2006 by robertogreco
Dennis Forbes - Interesting Facts About Domain Names
"Given that there are approximately 50 million .COM domains registered, it is indeed true that the low-hanging fruit domain names are overwhelming taken, and your chances of lucking upon an unnoticed available three-letter acronym (TLA) are close to zero,
internet  language  media  names  web  digital  demographics  data  information  statistics  reference  folksonomy  domains  business  culture  naming 
april 2006 by robertogreco
no sense of place » Blog Archive » Soft keys
"I’m getting crazy associations looking at the shortcuts to some of the apps on my phone, Sensor and Meaning. What is the relationship between naming something and setting certain expectations for use of technology?"
technology  mobile  phones  culture  psychology  language  words  names  naming 
february 2006 by robertogreco
Slashdot | Ham and Software - Communities of Creativity?
news  technology  names  naming 
november 2004 by robertogreco

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