Bryan Gardiner
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Jargon Watch: After Spam, Next Inbox Menace Is 'Bacn'

It’s not really spam. You want to read it (and probably would), you just don’t have the time. Thanks to the folks at PodCamp Pittsburgh, there’s a new web-term you can now use specifically for these types of e-mail notifications. Things like bill-payment receipts, Twitter requests, newsletters, project notifications—all are bacn. You may use the […]

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It's not really spam. You want to read it (and probably would), you just don't have the time. Thanks to the folks at PodCamp Pittsburgh, there's a new web-term you can now use specifically for these types of e-mail notifications. Things like bill-payment receipts, Twitter requests, newsletters, project notifications—all are bacn.

You may use the term thusly:

"Don't bother me, I'm reading through my bacn."
"Why am I getting so much bacn today?"
"Dude, enough with the bacn already!"

There's even a YouTube video, clarifying the term's Web 2.0 genesis.

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