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What shall we call Gemini logs, anyway?

tiwesdaeg at tilde.pink tiwesdaeg at tilde.pink

Sat Jan 18 23:40:12 GMT 2020

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 05:30:48PM +0000, solderpunk wrote:
> A post by tfurrows got me thinking about this:
> 
> gemini://consensus.circumlunar.space/blog/2019-10-24_geminiBlog.gmi
> 
> (tfurrows, if you're reading - that file is served up as text/plain,
> which breaks the link at the end!)
> 
> The web has blogs, gopher has phlogs, what should we call the Gemini
> equivalent?
> 
> As tfurrows mentions, a minority of phloggers prefer to use "glog" over
> "phlog", so that obvious candidate is taken.
> 
> The next thing that came to my mind is "gemlog", but that feels awkward
> to me because it's someone's username at SDF (and I follow them on
> Mastodon, too).  But I suppose most people won't recognise it as such.
> Maybe I'll ask how they'd feel about us using the term.
> 
> But does anybody have any other ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> Solderpunk

I've been using the term gemlog, but I like the word gem and don't thinkgemlog sounds awkward. I think glog sounds weird. It makes me think ofthe word glögg.

Tiwesdaeg