highlight the act
In an earlier post, I joked that the sites Kevin Kelly calls “consensus Web filters” won’t catch on until they get a cool name like “blog” or “wiki.” I just ran into a practical reason “consensus Web filter” is a lousy name for this kind of site. I just tagged the “digg vs dot” site that compares stories on digg.com and slashdot.org, and I didn’t have a nice tag to describe it. I, of course, tagged it “Web2.0,” but that doesn’t quite describe what the site is up to. “consensuswebfilter” is too long and uwieldy for a tag, while “CWF” won’t make sense to anyone but me.
Although I have zero influence over computer industry buzzwords, I propose to call these sites “bubblers,” because they enable the most popular links to “bubble” to the top, and, as far as I can tell, the only other colloquial use of “bubbler” is for drinking fountains. So tell your friends: “consensus Web filters” are now “bubblers.”
[…] Also see my post on “bubblers” and tagging on my personal blog. […]