Author: lesliedare@gmail.com

Bacn

My ten-year-old daughter loves visiting the NC State campus. Her favorite spot is Clark Dining Hall. Why, you ask? Two words: Unlimited bacon.

But this Bacn (yes, without the letter “o”) ain’t the same as the tangy, salty, crunchy, chewy manna from heaven (I like bacon, too). Nope, this is the latest techno-hip-buzzword that may or may not make it to mainstream dialogue. But I found it fun nonetheless (cuz…gee…it’s bacon!)

Bacn (first cousin to Spam) is, according to the folks at Bacn2, “email you want, but not right now.” Geeks are posting online their favorite strategies to deal with Bacn, such as creating an  email folder with a label like “Later” or “When I Have Time.”

Want to learn more? Just do a search on “bacn” with “email” in your search window and you will be surprised and likely amused with the results.

I’m laughing now, but will be watching to see if this term truly becomes part of our lexicon. (And by the way, Sausage is next!)

GossipReport.com

Word from my Student Affairs colleagues is that GossipReport.com has shown up at UNC-W events in an effort to generate material for their website, and may be looking to do the same on other campuses. I’d be interested to know if anyone here at NC State has had interaction with anyone from this organization.  This would be the type of website we include in educating our students about the consequences of their actions out in cyberspace…all part of helping our students (and ourselves) become Net Savvy. 

Blogging and Da Chen

Author Da Chen was the speaker at Convocation this past Monday night, and was by all accounts a huge success. He also met  with First Year College students, which was fitting since Chen’s “Colors of the Mountain” was this year’s FYC Summer Reading Assignment.

What I find interesting are all the blog posts by students in response to Chen’s visit on campus. Most (if not all) appear to be on students’ personal blogs and not related to class assignments. I haven’t carefully studied campus culture and attitudes via blog postings, but it was certainly noticable that Da Chen postings dominated the WolfBlog’s “recent posts” list most every day this week. It is great to see students capturing their thoughts in a way that lets the rest of us peek in.