Re: [Social-discuss] Which of these names do you like?

[Rob Myers]

On 06/23/2010 02:25 PM, Nicolás Reynolds wrote:
> Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:17:44AM -0400, Ted Smith dijo:
> > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 00:38 -0400, Matt Lee wrote:
> > > On 06/23/2010 12:36 AM, Shashi wrote:
> > >
> > > > for example naming the servers after medieval artists / classical
> > > > musicians / architects would be nice.
> > >
> > > will those names resonate with the public? i for example, cannot think
> > > of a medieval artist.
> >
> > I can think of a lot of Renaissance artists - maybe that's what Shashi
> > was thinking of.
> >
> > It seems like anything with recognition to it would be a better choice
> > than randomly generated words.
>
> +1 and +1 for language diversity
>
> (note this is not a -1 for the first list, but i don't like any of them)

Recognition is good, but mis-recognition and namespace collision are 
bad. If we use "Leonardo" as a name (to take an example of a renaissance 
artist / TMNT) there's already a Leonardo journal of electronic art and 
other users of the name that we would have to avoid confusion with.

Social networking sites do tend to have composite names (MySpace, 
Facebook), and it's easier to create composite names that no-one else is 
using. Invented names might be good as well as long as they aren't 
inadvertently funny or offensive in any language.

If people have ideas for good composite or invented names, that's great. 
We can grow the list.

- Rob.