[microformats-discuss] REST-discuss list, naming

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Jacob,

On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Jacob Ham wrote:
> Why is it so bad that SHAR is already used?  They are used in two  
> different contexts. Its not trademark'd or a copyrighted :-)

Well, partly courtesy, partly easy-Googling.  The key, as usual, is  
figuring out how to optimally spread the meme. In this particular  
case, 'shar' has been around so long that its easy for people to get  
confused, and inhibit idea-transmission.  Plus, we'd have to  
disambiguate the Wiki entry when we got famous. :-)

-- Ernie P.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Jake
>
> On 10/19/05, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <drernie at opendarwin.org> wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Robert Bachmann wrote:
>
> > SHAR is already used for SHell ARchive, see
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar.
>
> Doh!  I meant to Google-check that.  Thanks. :-(
>
> Still, its awfully close: the phonemes "sh" and "r" make a good
> combination.
>
>   Time for a game of "acronomyious", where we choose the acronym and
> reverse-engineer its meaning.  According to FreshMeat, there don't
> seem to be anyprojects with the names:
>
> * shur ("sure")
> * sher (a form of Urdu poetry)
> * crush ('rush' was taken)
> * brush
> * thresh
> * shire
>
> Of these, my favorite is BRUSH:
>
> B rowseable
> R EST
> U sing
> S emantic
> H TML
>
> It's a nice metaphor -- repainting the web in semantic colors. :-)
>
> -- Ernie P.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
> >> Hi Dimitri,
> >>
> >>> How about RAX:
> >>>
> >>> * RESTful
> >>> * API
> >>> * with XHTML
> >>
> >>
> >> My main concern with "X" in an acronym is that it ties us too  
> closely
> >> to XML (a la AJAX et al).  Even though we nominally use XHTML, the
> >> conceptual breakthrough is using semantic HTML as a way to do REST.
> >>
> >> Hmmm. "SH" is promising...
> >>
> >> SHAR:
> >> * Semantic
> >> * HTML
> >> * APIs for
> >> * REST
> >>
> > SHAR is already used for SHell ARchive, see
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar.
> >
> >
> > Robert
> > --
> > Robert Bachmann <rbach at rbach.priv.at> (OpenPGP KeyID: 0x4A5CCF10)
> > _______________________________________________
> > microformats-discuss mailing list
> > microformats-discuss at microformats.org
> > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
>
> ------------
> Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <drernie at opendarwin.org>
> Ex-Physicist, Marketing Weenie, and Dilettante Hacker
> Probe-Hacker blog: http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> microformats-discuss mailing list
> microformats-discuss at microformats.org
> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
>
> _______________________________________________
> microformats-discuss mailing list
> microformats-discuss at microformats.org
> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss

------------
Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <drernie at opendarwin.org>
Ex-Physicist, Marketing Weenie, and Dilettante Hacker
Probe-Hacker blog: http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/attachments/20051019/6e612b86/attachment.htm