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Oh, an easy one. You see, it’s my name.
Pickings were slim back in Feb. 2000, so I had to choose something that’s impossible for most people to say or spell.
I found a stock photo of some abstract art I wanted to use for the header. It featured the colors blue and green rather prominently, and not being very original, I named my blog Bluegreen Blog.
Time to get a wordpress poll plugin!
1 more vote for name
I still have no idea why I called my site what I did. I just stuck words together.
I felt I was joining a bandwagon, so I chose the name to suit!
I tend to talk about minor things, and as my h2 says the words are monosyllabic, so smallwords seemed like a good fit.
Mine goes back to a story from college. There was a group of guys in our fraternity who banded together as a team whenever we did things that involved teams. I was young and full of piss and vinegar and decided there needed to be another group to rival them. I masterminded a group, but needed a name. One of my friends’ nickname was Skockie, so I thought we should be “The Skockination.” Initially, right after college, I set things up for us to each have a blog and picture gallery to keep up with friends and family. But, updating died down and I recently decided to scrap the others’ space and take over the domain for my blog. Some people didn’t and still don’t always pronounce it correctly, so I added a macron over the first O so it would be pronounced as “oh.” The only problem is that WordPress handles it correctly everywhere except when sending emails out, where it turns into the character for angstrom!
Mine just struck me out of the blue.
I got my sites name off a flash word generator site.
From a line in Terminator 2, for which one friend gave me a great deal of grief but hey, the first 23,534 choices were taken.
My blog’s called MadTV. Which came about because my real life nickname is “Mad” (for real, everyone calls me Mad) and my first ever half decent site design (done in Flash) looked like a TV. So MadTV seemed logical. What I didn’t realise is that there was a famous show in the States called MadTV. Which explains why I couldn’t get a top level domain name. So I ended up with madtv.me.uk.
Fire (and fire fighting) is close to my heart and I had thought of naming the blog with something to do with randomness. Random flashes of brilliance sounded like I assume too much, so randomfire was the way to go.
It’s interesting that this topic comes up now, as I’m looking to create a second blog. I’m trying to think of something creative for a religious blog, perhaps using .us as the TLD so I can do things like jes.us (which is already taken).
Does anyone have any ideas on what I could use that would be catchy, easy to remember, and not too long?
I wanted something CSS-esque, something too clever by half…
…and absolutelyrelative.com was taken.
My blog (if you can call it that) doesn’t have a real name, my domain though was taken from the Douglas Adams book The Meaning of Liff. I was looking for something short to type so browsed through, liked the look of the word and how it sounded, plus the definition made me laugh.
How can Big Pink Cookies at Starbucks not make everyone happy? Yeah, I had to ditch the “BlahBlahBlog” thing and make people smile. And what is better than a Big Pink Cookie?
Little did I know that a few years later I would be serving them as a “Groom’s Cake” at my wedding. With Coffee. In a Corner.
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I guess it has a hard-lined, newsroom sound to it. Very unlike the content though! (…and I use the term “content” loosely too.)
I don’t like the word “blog” or any of its derivatives, but anyway…
I named mine after an album I was listening to at the moment… Well actually I changed it just a little and voila!
And the reason I dont have a domain is because I cant afford one.
I chose one from Grant Splorp’s Available Domain Name of the Week. The dotcom had already gone, so I went for the dotnet.
From the Walt Whitman poem Song of Myself:
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Well, its just my name with “the” in front of it. But, if you say it out loud, it tends to sound like a certain Disney movie. 🙂 I picked this up as a nickname in college (some even called me Simba).