{"id":50,"date":"2005-06-13T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:58:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:58:29","slug":"brainstorming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Brainstorming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\">Roger Simon<\/a> wants suggestions for a more serious name for the Pajamas Media portal site. I hope they don&#8217;t get too serious: it would make them look too much like the pompous old farts they aim to <s>replace<\/s> supplement.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest something short and snappy, perhaps only three letters, like an old-fashioned over-the-air network. One possibility would be NBS, which could stand for the minimalist &#8216;Network of Blog Sites&#8217; or other, more complex, names. Acronyms normally omit prepositions and other tiny words, but in this case &#8216;NoBS&#8217; might be a better representation of what the new online network will stand for. (&#8216;Stand for&#8217; in two or three different ways, come to think of it:  abbreviate + represent + put up with. Sometimes I just can&#8217;t help punning.)<\/p>\n<p>The new blogging network will need a logo as well as a name. Has anyone thought about that yet? Again, mockery is hard to resist. If CBS uses a creepy unblinking eye, NoBS could use an ear, or a finger, or a finger stuck in an eye.  If NBC uses a garish rainbow-colored peacock, NoBS could use an elegantly monochrome peahen. The comments are open for further suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Simon wants suggestions for a more serious name for the Pajamas Media portal site. I hope they don&#8217;t get too serious: it would make them look too much like the pompous old farts they aim to replace supplement. I suggest something short and snappy, perhaps only three letters, like an old-fashioned over-the-air network. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metablogular-musings","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}