What is ‘bacn’?
*I need to point out, though I was the first to blog about Bacn I did not think it up. I was part of a group and it was truly a group effort. I don’t want to take the credit. See Bacn2.com Thanks :)*
Click here for the official Bacn web site
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‘Bacn’ is an emerging web 2 term. Already being widely used.
Putting it bluntly, ‘bacn’ is:
"Notifications you want. But not right now"
You know all those notifications, newsletters, project notifications, updates etc. that you sign up for and really, really want to keep up to date on but don’t seem to have the time for right now? (and now, and now, and now).
Well, that is ‘bacn’
Use it like this:
"I’m reading through my bacn"
"I got so much bacn today!"
"Dude, enough with the bacn already!"
40 Responses to “What is ‘bacn’?”
August 19th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
[...] Andy Quayle wrote about it last night and he told me that, and then I [...]
August 19th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
[...] 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 [...]
August 20th, 2007 at 3:48 am
[...] Link backs and credits to Chris Brogan and Andy Quayle. [...]
August 20th, 2007 at 3:51 am
[...] Теперь в Ñети вÑе чаще и чаще иÑпользуют термин “banc”. ПопытаюÑÑŒ доÑловно перевеÑти, что же вÑе таки он [...]
August 20th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
It’s amazing how this has taken off.:)
August 20th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
[...] What is ?bacn?? - TechBurgh [...]
August 21st, 2007 at 12:59 am
[...] 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 [...]
August 21st, 2007 at 12:40 pm
[...] 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. [...]
August 21st, 2007 at 2:41 pm
[...] 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 [...]
August 21st, 2007 at 5:01 pm
[...] 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.” [...]
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:53 pm
[...] 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 [...]
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:31 am
[...] (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 [...]
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:24 pm
[...] 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 [...]
August 24th, 2007 at 4:51 am
[...] 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 [...]
August 24th, 2007 at 5:33 am
[...] 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 [...]
August 24th, 2007 at 5:51 am
[...] 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 [...]
August 24th, 2007 at 10:20 am
[...] 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 [...]
August 24th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
[...] Now, here’s bacn: [...]
August 24th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
[...] 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 [...]
August 24th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
[...] 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 [...]
August 25th, 2007 at 12:36 am
[...] 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 [...]
August 25th, 2007 at 11:16 am
[...] le spam, voici le bacn… (via [...]
August 25th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
[...] “Notificaciones que quieres, pero no ahora mismo“. [...]
August 27th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
[...] 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. [...]
August 28th, 2007 at 2:48 am
[...] Nabbed from WebbAlert, what is bacn? [...]
August 28th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
[...] 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 [...]
August 28th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
[...] 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 [...]
August 29th, 2007 at 11:09 am
[...] 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 [...]
August 31st, 2007 at 2:32 am
[...] Теперь в Ñети вÑе чаще и чаще иÑпользуют термин “bacn”. ПопытаюÑÑŒ доÑловно перевеÑти, что же вÑе таки он [...]
September 5th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
[...] 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 [...]
September 7th, 2007 at 10:02 am
[...] “Dude, enough with the bacn already!” (TechBurgh) [...]
September 10th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
[...] 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 themâ€. Following it was a post in techburgh [...]
September 14th, 2007 at 12:50 am
[...] term Bacn originated from the PodCamp Pittsburgh and was first blogged about by Andy Quayle’s What is ‘bacn’? [...]
September 17th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
[...] 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. [...]
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
[...] The nascient post: What is bacn? (Andy at Techburgh.com) http://techburgh.com/blog/2007/08/18/what-is-bacn/ [...]
November 12th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
[...] 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 [...]
April 20th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
[...] 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 [...]
June 1st, 2008 at 11:56 am
[...] d’info ici ou encore ici (site officiel, ouais je sais c’est dingue un site officiel… en même [...]
August 18th, 2008 at 5:26 am
[...] Birthday Bacn! Posted by: Andy on Monday, August 18th, 2008 Can you believe it? The bacn meme is a year old [...]
August 18th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Oh bacn, I remember when you were just a tiny little dot on the blogosphere that exploded in those 1st 24 hours, hit Time and People and came right back again as if we’d always been making separate folders in our email to sort all that BACN to for later…
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