That NAME thang...
Okay,
It looks like we're tilting in favour of Billy as a name. Can we put it to a vote?
Also, please state your preference for a domain name:
- billymag.ca
- billymag.com
The sooner we have this nailed down, the sooner I can register a domain, get some Web hosting, and start installing Content Management Software.
It looks like we're tilting in favour of Billy as a name. Can we put it to a vote?
Also, please state your preference for a domain name:
- billymag.ca
- billymag.com
The sooner we have this nailed down, the sooner I can register a domain, get some Web hosting, and start installing Content Management Software.
posted by Sean McCormick at 6:09 PM
23 Comments:
One vote for billymag.ca.
But maybe we should have both what for branding and all that.
Definitely .com, not .ca
Much more credible, especially for US audience/advertisers
"Much more credible, especially for US audience/advertisers"
Not to mention more difficult for the Canadian govt to meddle with if we hack them off.
Oh, for what it's worth, I'm for 'Billy' as a name (I still like Svend better and curse you all for not recognizing my Warren Kinsella like greatness on that matter), and billymag.com as the domain.
Billymag.com. Definitely.
I'm all for Billy.
As a .com simply because I would like the magazine to have a larger than Canada perspective.
However, I am sure there is a place for Svend somewhere - perhaps we could get Kinsella to do a blog pretending to be Svend...we'll think of something.
Let's see a few more comments and then it's a go.
(I should mention the last magazine I edited had the very Buddhist name, two chairs, so this is a step up.)
When I hear billy I think of goat.
It also sounds really male.
Just my first impressions - and I'm not a contributor so I'm not sure if I should be commenting or not....
Me no like Billy.
I would prefer BillyClub!.
I was thinking about a name that sounds left wing like .. CADRE.. or something.
Just to confuse people.
Definitely .com
.com please! I am still smarting from an email to my sympatico.ca account asking why I was writing from California.
Can someone please fill me in on the Billy reference? I thought I was up on pop culture but this one escapes me entirely.
And another thing... while Billy leaves me perplexed as to what it has to do with politics, conservative politics or Canada it has the advantages of being easy to remember, vague and suggests "George" which, while a failed project, is probably a good model for the scope I am imagining.
It is also leagues better than Vorpal Blade... wtf? We might as well call ourselves Superfriends.
I'm sold on Billy, and Flea has talked me into .com.
Don't forget, we can have a subtitle which is a little less incomprehensible. Example: "BILLY - for reading in darkened home offices".
Note: not a serious example.
I can assure everyone that "Billy" has literally no referential value whatsoever. Which is, of course, the malignant genius of it. I just like the sound. Plus, you don't see a lot of "Billy"s these days. "Bill"s are a dime a dozen (Gates, Cosby, Clinton, etc.), but "Billy"? We'll be the only one.
(I had forgotten about George; that was a great magazine, and also a useful template, I think, content-wise. Just ignore the fact that it went under.)
Don, of course you can comment...a lot I hope and if I can figure out the problem with limited number of contributors created by Blogger you'll be on the list.
Yes, Billy does sound a little male, no we are not going to call it Billie with a smiley over the second "i" Playmate style.
Billy does have the advantage of being memorable without any references at all. (Which matters on the net - Mr. Bezos was not an idiot when he called his bookstore "Amazon".)
Here is a suggestion: put up a quick post on your own blogs - not mentioning the precise .com - and ask your readers what they think of it. I'm going to do that now.
One vote for .com
Late entry: As I wass posting Billy to my site I came up with
small "l"
I'm still good with "billy" but thought I would throw that in the mix as it is a little less, er, conceptual.
Probably a moot point, but I also much like "Billy" and am very much in favour of a ".com" domain name.
And as for those of you who ridicule "The Vorpal Blade" -- bah, you non-Lewis-Carrol-fans have no soul! :-)
"Billy" has much appeal. And hey, random names work. Just think of "George". (Although I guess that JFK Jr. was referring to Washington...)
And there were a few decent Williams in our past:
Billy Bishop
Sir William Stephenson ("Intrepid")
Sir William LoganWilliam BaffinAnd if you will count a Wilfrid in the Billy column, then there's Sir Wilfrid Laurier, too.
Watch it guys. The first thing you'll know is that Linda McQuaig will be writing on how our choosing a .com domain over a .ca one is unmistakeable evidence of our deep-seated anti-Canadianism...
Joking aside, I'm all for billymag.com
Sheesh.. I should have thought about this more clearly.
You know, I'm all for King Billy!
But that's just my N. Irish Protestant roots coming through :)
We can but hope Ms. McQuaig will be the first to transform the name into either "Bully" or "Billy Club"
In the thought balloon over Mr. K's head are the imortal words, "Any publicity is good publicity."
Not trying to be a stick in the mud but I've gotten pretty poor reaction when I've tossed the name Billy at people.
The expected reasons.
I'm going to throw some others out there...
What about Cherry?
Northern Thought (s)
I don't think you should necessarily discard the idea of avoiding something Canadian in the name - and something that'll market/explain itself.
All domains are available.
I actually thought about National Review (not that it's a model, I just thought about it) - Northern Review, Northern Perspective
Moose
Beaver
Apex/Mosaic
Yasur/Lopevi
I still like TANSTAAFL as a name.
However, I think we need to get going on this thing. If we really hate the name, it could be changed later.
Note that the Alberta gov't will likely call an election on Monday for 22 Nov and this may be a good chance for us to put this mag on the map with some interviews, etc. I think, done correctly, an Alberta provincial election might be interesting to all of Canada.
I would definately be interested in doing some interviews.
The Billy Bishop reference completely sold me.
I think it would be an impossible task to get Ontarians interested in the Alberta election.
But I do think it should be started fairly soon - it's a rare time in canadian politics and if there is an election in the spring, when public appetite is the greatest, we need to be established.
Billymag.com
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