At PodCast Pittsburgh 2.0, a new Internet term was born. Recent articles appearing on NPR and in The Chicago Tribune describe "Bacn" (pronounced "bacon") which is e-mail you want to read — just not now. Blogger Tommy Vallier who helped invent the term at this recent conference says, "An e-mail from your wife is not bacn — that's personal. An e-mail from Nigeria offering to send you $3 million is not bacn—that's spam. Bacn is everything in between, the "middle class of e-mail."
Some examples of bacn:
• An e-mail from an airline updating your flight schedule
• An e-mail from Amazon announcing a sale on books
• An e-mail from The Chicago Tribune with a today's headlines
• An e-mail from Friendster announcing that you have a new friend
• An e-mail from your bank with your checking account balance
Check out the Bacn website [Email you want - But not right now],complete with YouTube videos.
Judy Gressel
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