How did you choose your blog's name?
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Last month a poster on social network blogcatalog asked fellow users how they chose the name for their blog. Some were specifically chosen, others were randomly picked and many others were just dumb luck. Picking a blog name can go either way for journalists who either blog under a company name or blog independently.
Whether the names were pre-chosen or not, there are many mainstream news outlets with great names for their blogs. They include Fox News' The Bourbon Room, USA Today's Pop Candy, Time Magazine's Curious Capitalist, The Guardian's Media Monkey, Carpetbagger, The New York Time's fashion blog, Dishing, Boston.com's food blog and the truly original The Fastest Blog on 2 Feet, a lacrosse blog by Washington Post writer Christian Swezey.
If you're a pun person, there is What's Bruin, the LA Times' blog covering UCLA sports teams, Booster Shots, a health blog also from the LA Times, BaltAmour, a dating blog from the Baltimore Sun, and Foam on the Range, the Denver Post's beer blog.
As far as independent bloggers go, I've always been partial to Will Sullivan's choice of Journerdism, a portmanteau of journalism and nerd that perfectly describes the heart of every hardcore multimedia journalist.
As for 10,000 Words, the name came after some heavy deliberation. I initially wanted to call it Prometheus, after the Greek legend who stole fire from the gods and brought it to the people. But sensing that the name was a little heavy, I opted for 10,000 Words which, as the about page points out, is a likely answer to how many words a multimedia story is worth.
Now it's your turn. What is your blog's name? Did you choose it yourself or was it chosen for you? Leave a link to your blog in the comments and feel free to share the story behind it.
Whether the names were pre-chosen or not, there are many mainstream news outlets with great names for their blogs. They include Fox News' The Bourbon Room, USA Today's Pop Candy, Time Magazine's Curious Capitalist, The Guardian's Media Monkey, Carpetbagger, The New York Time's fashion blog, Dishing, Boston.com's food blog and the truly original The Fastest Blog on 2 Feet, a lacrosse blog by Washington Post writer Christian Swezey.
If you're a pun person, there is What's Bruin, the LA Times' blog covering UCLA sports teams, Booster Shots, a health blog also from the LA Times, BaltAmour, a dating blog from the Baltimore Sun, and Foam on the Range, the Denver Post's beer blog.
As far as independent bloggers go, I've always been partial to Will Sullivan's choice of Journerdism, a portmanteau of journalism and nerd that perfectly describes the heart of every hardcore multimedia journalist.
As for 10,000 Words, the name came after some heavy deliberation. I initially wanted to call it Prometheus, after the Greek legend who stole fire from the gods and brought it to the people. But sensing that the name was a little heavy, I opted for 10,000 Words which, as the about page points out, is a likely answer to how many words a multimedia story is worth.
Now it's your turn. What is your blog's name? Did you choose it yourself or was it chosen for you? Leave a link to your blog in the comments and feel free to share the story behind it.
Labels: blogging
10 Comments
JK Says:
I chose 2thehead because the blog was originally going to be me and a friend who had a name that began with J also. It was originally going to be called "2 J's To The Head", a play on a phrase that makes you think about smoking marijuana. That didn't happen so I took the 2 J's out.
Mark A. Dodge Medlin Says:
I'm a journalist with a photoblog called "The Occasional Odd Crop." I wanted something that said "photography" and was a bit quirky so that it would stand out on any list of photoblogs.
Most of the words on my blog are photo descriptions, but I sometimes post a few paragraphs about something else. When I do, I call it "The Occasional Odd Thought."
Most of the words on my blog are photo descriptions, but I sometimes post a few paragraphs about something else. When I do, I call it "The Occasional Odd Thought."
Krishna Prasad Says:
When I decided to set up a blog, I wanted to have a name that had some resonance with the place I hailed from: a city called Mysore in south India. I decided on "churumuri", a not-so-heavy, not-so-light snack made of puffed rice, unique to the place. It is what my blog also, not so heavy, not so light.
Stan Yann Says:
My blog is called The Ignorant Immigrant because I am an immigrant. Also as my blog description line says: "What I know can fill a book, what I don't know can fill a library." That's why it's called The Ignorant Immigrant.
photovoltaic Says:
when I was looking for my blog name, I'm so lucky the solarphotovoltaic didn't using, so it's come the :
http://solarphotovoltaic.blogspot.com
http://solarphotovoltaic.blogspot.com
Denise Thornton Says:
My blog is called Digging in the Driftless which I mulled over for weeks to describe the 44 acres where I work to protect its microenvironments as well as make a green place to live and initiate small scale sustainable farming. I settled on Digging in the Driftless because the land is located in the Driftless Area, and my sense of digging in which is both figurative and often back achingly literal. I hope this title will help interested people will find it.
digginginthedriftless.wordpress.com
digginginthedriftless.wordpress.com
Michele @ Rasmussen Says:
I started writing Blog's over 2 years ago... The blog are about my life as a online student at Rasmussen College juggling my full time job. I was able to create my own name, but I had no idea what to call it so I went really original with it...you ready? Michele's Blog...that's right folks no creativity here. However now it would be nice to come up with something better since I have been doing it for so long...The problem is I am lacking in the creativity department so any help would be great!
Check out my blog page at:
http://www.rasmussen.edu/blogs/Micheles-Blog.aspx
Let me know if you have any good ideas for me...While your there check out my blogs too - Thanks!
Michele
Check out my blog page at:
http://www.rasmussen.edu/blogs/Micheles-Blog.aspx
Let me know if you have any good ideas for me...While your there check out my blogs too - Thanks!
Michele
bag Says:
A creative is very important, but it has to get the point, for example, if you are creating a music blog, your blog name has to have something to do with music, or else, no one can search your blog, so your blog has few visitors.
June 17, 2008 11:16 AM