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
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 think gemlog sounds awkward. I think glog sounds weird. It makes me think of the word gl?gg. Tiwesdaeg
I used ?Flight Journal? for mine because gemlog reminds me too much of Ruby gems, but that?s not really something I would advise. glog sounds a bit weird too, at least when trying to pronounce it. Looking at the Gemini program I found the word ?capsule?. What?s interesting is that in French it can mean ?a short column on a given subject? and I kinda like how it sounds.
On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 01:04:44AM +0100, Julien Blanchard wrote: > I used ?Flight Journal? for mine because gemlog reminds me too much of Ruby gems, but that?s not really something I would advise. glog sounds a bit weird too, at least when trying to pronounce it. > Looking at the Gemini program I found the word ?capsule?. What?s interesting is that in French it can mean ?a short column on a given subject? and I kinda like how it sounds. The "capsule" idea was proposed earlier on (I forget by who, sorry!). I kind of like it, but I've come to think of it as a slightly more general term, like "gopherhole" - i.e. it doesn't actually imply regular updates. I asked the Gemlog I know how he felt about us using "gemlog" in this context and he had no objections! Cheers, Solderpunk
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