Atheists eat babies?: Steve Cuno on labels and branding
This post originally appeared at Catch This. OK, he didn’t say babies, he said kittens. Last weekend I watched streaming video of The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM) 7 from Las Vegas …
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That Horse Has Left the Station: Trying to Trademark Tweet
This post originally appeared at Catch This. I employ a deliberately mixed metaphor in the title of this post to exemplify my confusion about what Twitter’s trying to do here. …
Hiking the Appalachian Trail: New Euphemism Alert!
This post originally appeared at Catch This. So…Mark Sanford. This isn’t a political blog, but we do read the news, and this particular scandal has now contributed a new euphemism …
NoPa? Really?: Who Owns Naming Rights in San Francisco?
This post originally appeared at Catch This. Believe it or not, some of us still read newspapers. And so I am able to tell you that on its front page, …
I Can Create Words – I’m a Linguist: Forbes Special Report on Neologisms
This post originally appeared at Catch This. This was published a few weeks ago, but I didn’t have a chance to blog it till now. Forbes, of all publications, put …
Born Again: GodTube Becomes Tangle
This post originally appeared at Catch This. Yeah, I know the title was a cheap joke, but what the heck. I knew that GodTube existed, but just the other day …
This is a Disaster: SciFi rebrands as Syfy
This post originally appeared at Catch This. From our friend Nancy Friedman comes this disturbing news: Syfy The New York Times reports that cable television’s Sci Fi Channel has been …
ID, please: Facebook Won’t Allow “Batman”
This post originally appeared at Catch This. This story recently made the round on the mailing list of the American Name Society. From the Washington Post: What Caitlin wanted did …
This is a Job for Wolverine: Clawing Back Profits
This post originally appeared at Catch This. The phrase “claw back” has been popping up in the news lately, specifically in reference to Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme mega-super-ripoff. I had …
Beer and Speedballs: More Energy Drink Naming
This post originally appeared at Catch This. Once upon a time there was an energy drink named Cocaine. Highly caffeinated, it was pulled in 2007 by its maker, Redux Beverages, …