Katie.com

[edg]

I am pleased to note that Plume, the subsidiary of Penguin Group which publishes Katie.com, is re-titling the book (caution, PDF). The new title is A Girl's Life Online, which is, frankly, a really uninspiring title - but then, Katie.com was just a really freaking stupid title, so...

(No, I'm not saying that katie.com is a stupid name; and, in fact, if Katie Jones wrote a book about this or any other aspect of that website, I'd call it a perfectly fine name. I'm saying that the ".com" part of Katie.com is a relic of the Internet boom - note that the original publishing date was 2000, when you'd double sales if you stuck ".com" onto something - and, frankly, a part that I suspect we'd all rather forget. I miss the Internet boom, but I hated the naming conventions.)

Link courtesy of BoingBoing.

Comments

[canaa.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :) The power of the Internet masses, yo.

Also, Tarbox is now claiming that Aftab is not her lawyer (http://www.katiet.com/message1.htm), and she never asked the woman to harass Jones over the issue.

I claim partial credit!

[cherrypep.livejournal.com]

I sent an email too .-)

And yeah, everything.com is a stupid name. It is nearly as bad as all of those eWhatevers and iWhatevers.

Indeed, last year I wrote a damn proposal for an European Network Of Excellence in Web Engineering, and my boss insisted that it should be entitled EWENE. I asked how it should be pronounced, and he said, oh, eWeenie.

I did tell him what the term Weenie typically means, and how ridiculously stupid it sounded to be an e-Weenie... but the thing went through anyway (http://www.schwinger.at/EWENE/).

[finding_helena]

"Descent into the seductive world of the Internet". Can I write a counter book about the Internet social scene enhancing your life if you're careful?

Oh wait... it is seductive. I met my boyfriend online. Bollocks.

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

It's not as people I know who still give web addresses as "w w w dot domainname" and fail to tell me if it's .com or .net or .panda. Grah. Or my dad, who puts www in front of his email address when giving it to me. *Facepalm*

[gehn.livejournal.com]

There were worse atrocitites committed in the name of the .com.. Katie.com doesn't sound SO bad when you think of things like The Commonwealth of Massachusetts naming itself the ".COMmonwealth of Massachusetts" for a while.

Bleh. I'm so glad that's over.

[edg.livejournal.com]

Heh. Reminds me of the City of Tempe's decision to rename historic Mill Avenue to Millennium Avenue in 1999-2000. (Of course, as I recall, they were also tearing down the mill whence Mill Avenue got its name, so...)