Bacn - a new term online

Wednesday, September 05, 2007 by Anders Brandstrup | TimeLog

I discovered a new word today. A word I have missed and to which I  predict a great future: bacn. It is pronounced like "bacon" and is a term that covers all automatic messages and notifications received from various online services from which you, for instance, get an invitation from LinkedIn, a notification from Google Calendar, account status from Groupcare or various newsletters. All the emails you receive daily that are not personal messages but cannot be characterised as spam either.

Bacn is better than spam as it provides you with information from sites you subscribed to that in some way or another is relevant to you but which you do not need to view straight away.

The use of bacn is likely to increase - perhaps even boom - in the near future, and that will require you to learn new routines and become better at using filters in your email program if you want to avoid being overloaded with information. It will also require the companies sending information to limit the amount of bacn they send out if they want to attract the attention of their recipients.   

Bacn is a word so new that you know it was created at the conference PodCamp Pittsburgh.

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