What is ‘bacn’?

[...] Andy Quayle wrote about it last night and he told me that, and then I [...]

[...] around twittersphere like crazy this weekend: “bacn”. Originally written about by Andy Quayle, the term got a lot of buzz at Podcamp Pittsburg, and for good reason. Sure, we don’t really [...]

[...] Link backs and credits to Chris Brogan and Andy Quayle. [...]

[...] Теперь в сети все чаще и чаще используют термин “banc”. Попытаюсь дословно перевести, что же все таки он [...]

I’m reading through my bacn http://tinyurl.com/2hh7pz

[...] What is ?bacn?? – TechBurgh [...]

[...] animal? It started at the registration desk at Podcamp Pittsburgh 2 on Saturday afternoon. We (Andy Quale, Jesse Hambley, Tommy Vallier, Jason Head, Val Head and Ann Turiano) were having an amusing [...]

[...] Il semble que l’une des réalités de la vie numérique ait depuis peu un nom : tous ces emails de notification, ces newsletters de veille, ces alertes Facebook, ces logs de Gtalk, ces rapports automatisés de serveurs qui lentement et sûrement et quotidiennement encombrent votre boîte mail, ce n’est pas du spam, c’est du bacn. [...]

[...] you’re like me ten minutes ago, you might be scratching your head. bacn, according to this video from Podcamp Pittsburgh last weekend, is the email that you want to receive, but [...]

[...] this week’s latest Internet meme. Publicized by media maestro Chris Brogan and coined by Andy Quayle et al at PodCamp Pittsburgh, bacn is defined as “mail you want — but not right now.” [...]

[...] and then expanding on them later in a blog post. But I don’t want to contribute to my friends bacn, and in many cases I prefer to mull something over before broadcasting it to the world. If I was [...]

[...] (e-mail you want, just not now: myspace alerts, twitter followers, newsletters, etc.) was only coined on Sunday, but as of today it has been blogged over 350 times and has become the 14th most-popular search [...]

[...] did I come up with this? I didn’t. The web has been buzzing about it for a few days now. // share this These icons link to social bookmarking [...]

[...] or when you try to add friends (that generates bacn for your friends). It’s all covered on Andy Quayle’s site. According to Chris Brogan he was the first to use it. Anyway, that term has been showing up in [...]

[...] or when you try to add friends (that generates bacn for your friends). It’s all covered on Andy Quayle’s site. According to Chris Brogan he was the first to use it. Anyway, that term has been showing up in [...]

[...] or when you try to add friends (that generates bacn for your friends). It’s all covered on Andy Quayle’s site. According to Chris Brogan he was the first to use it. Anyway, that term has been showing up in [...]

[...] or when you try to add friends (that generates bacn for your friends). It’s all covered on Andy Quayle’s site. According to Chris Brogan he was the first to use [...]

[...] Now, here’s bacn: [...]

[...] Andy at TechBurgh has recently defined the flow of e-mail that Jon referred to as Bacn – not quite spam, but not a kick in the ass away from it! Robert Scoble gets annoyed over the way [...]

[...] or when you try to add friends (that generates bacn for your friends). It?s all covered on Andy Quayle?s site. According to Chris Brogan he was the first to use it. Anyway, that term has been showing up in [...]

[...] or when you try to add friends (that generates bacn for your friends). It’s all covered on Andy Quayle’s site. According to Chris Brogan he was the first to use it. Anyway, that term has been showing up in [...]

[...] le spam, voici le bacn… (via [...]

[...] “Notificaciones que quieres, pero no ahora mismo“. [...]

[...] For example, BestBuy.com, another site built by the same design firm, doesn’t seem to offer RSS feeds for shopping or even the press release section of the site. They do offer email alerts for press releases, which is basically serving Bacn. [...]

[...] Nabbed from WebbAlert, what is bacn? [...]

[...] or when you try to add friends (that generates bacn for your friends). It’s all covered on Andy Quayle’s site. According to Chris Brogan he was the first to use it. Anyway, that term has been showing up in [...]

[...] or when you try to add friends (that generates bacn for your friends). It’s all covered on Andy Quayle’s site. According to Chris Brogan he was the first to use it. Anyway, that term has been showing up in [...]

[...] and still want to keep, and all of the miscellaneous web subscriptions that you regularly receive. It’s not exactly spam, since you aren’t annoyed by them nor do you want to throw them out. However, you just [...]

[...] Теперь в сети все чаще и чаще используют термин “bacn”. Попытаюсь дословно перевести, что же все таки он [...]

[...] or when you try to add friends (that generates bacn for your friends). It’s all covered on Andy Quayle’s site. According to Chris Brogan he was the first to use it. Anyway, that term has been showing up in [...]

[...] “Dude, enough with the bacn already!” (TechBurgh) [...]

[...] The rise of Bacn: Chronological overview: Aug 18: It all started in an unformal discussion taken place at PodCam Pittsburgh about “back bacon (aka canadian bacon) and how some people we know twitter so much we have to turn off notifications for them”. Following it was a post in techburgh  [...]

[...] term Bacn originated from the PodCamp Pittsburgh and was first blogged about by Andy Quayle’s What is ‘bacn’? [...]

[...] Engadget confirms that the mellifluously named iPhoneSimFree.com has liberated the iPhone from AT&T’s clutches with a consumer-friendly software hack. Meanwhile a New Jersey Teen has battered his way in with a soldering iron…and an Irish crew gets in on the fun too, but a law firm claiming to represent AT&T tells them to back down. Google’s storied GPhone. Coming in two weeks? Two years? Ever? Panasonic’s $70,000 TV set. Orkut channels Spinal Tap. Yes, it’s huge everywhere other than the U.S. And I mean really, really huge. Google your way around Manhattan. Apple is up to…something. On September 5th. Perhaps it’s a response to this hot new iPhone accessory. Worse than email, it’s better than spam – meet Bacn. [...]

[...] The nascient post: What is bacn? (Andy at Techburgh.com) http://techburgh.com/blog/2007/08/18/what-is-bacn/ [...]

[...] the word coined at Pittsburgh PodCamp 2 and first blogged about here on TechBurgh is one of the runners up for the Oxford University Press Word of the [...]

[...] reality is Twitter is great for speaking your mind, but it ultimately leads to increased bacn on the internet. I have been able to ask the community some questions and received some useful [...]

[...] d’info ici ou encore ici (site officiel, ouais je sais c’est dingue un site officiel… en même [...]

I spoke to 2 people today who didn’t know what Bacn is. Deeply saddening. Do you know? http://bit.ly/lFniA

[...] PR-Blogger Klaus Eck schreibt gerade über die vielen Mails von Social-Media-Netzwerken, die über den Tag verteilt in seinem Postfach eintrudeln – und immer wieder aus der Arbeit raus reißen. Für diese automatisierte News-Meldungen und Benachrichtigungen von Xing, Twitter, Mr. Wong & Co. hat sich der Begriff BACN gefunden: „Notifications you want. But not right now.“ [...]

[...] a web site. And it has a forum. And a PSA. But most of the publicity has come from the many many many many many posts around the internet. [...]

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