Of Relevance

Have you noticed how your email box is full of messages that aren’t spam exactly, but also are not a one-to-one meaningful communication? Notifications from facebook are a good example, as are comment links for blogs I have commented on myself. As Andy Quale from Techburgh puts it: “Notifications you want. But not right now.”

Now there is a new word for them: bacn (as in bacon). Better than spam (which for those who don’t know is a yucky canned, processed pork luncheon meat).

Start setting the trend – use it in your everyday speech. As in

• “Got thirty emails this morning, and twenty of them were bacn”
• “Facebook is great, but its bacn can overwhelm your inbox”

Apparently, this term originated with Podcamp Pittsburgh.