This week’s #twchat focused on names, naming, and all things “identification.”
I apologize for the brevity of this week’s notes – due to some scheduling issues, I wasn’t able to pay thorough attention to the chat. Which means – more room for you to weigh in! Let’s talk naming!
It was, perhaps, a deceptively simple subject.
Mark’s first question regarded what makes a good name for a product/service/blog/book. Good question.
We talked about the nature of naming as a descriptive property, as well as names which have become the meaning instead – Apple/Mac for example, Kleenex, Q-tip. The list went on.
We talked about names as short descriptions, components of names (representations, replacement meanings), and how the names we give our children, and the names we give our pets differ. @SuzeMuse pointed out she prefers naming pets like people – which
There was a gap in the conversation in respect to etymology – the origins of the words we use. this affects names more than I think people give credit.
So, in liew of a more thorough exposition, some questions:
What are your favourite names? (For anything – product, company, service, cats, etc)
Where do you think these names came from?
Do you struggle with naming things, your own creations for instance?
Are there any names for things you think are horrendous enough to mention and deconstruct to find our how they came about?
Transcript: What The Hashtag transcript for #twchat
Participants’ List: TweepML Participants for #twchat July 14th
Photo by Jack Dorsey.
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