Naming Things

cf Object Identifier, Wiki Name, Automatic Linking, Link As You Think, Shared Language, Pattern Language

Naming Things is Magick!

• WikiWikiWeb:NameMagic
• Venkatesh Rao: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/02/02/how-to-name-things/
• True Name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name
• Brian Eno: All the signs were in the air all around with ambient music in the mid 1970s, and other people were doing a similar thing. I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what it needed. A name. A name. Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it. By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important.) signs were in the air all around with ambient music in the mid 1970s, and other people were doing a similar thing. I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what it needed. A name. A name. Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it. By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important.
• Roadside Picnic: His face has completely calm; you can see he's figured everything out. They are all like that, the eggheads. The most important thing for them is to come up with a name. Until he comes up with one, you feel really sorry for him, he looks so lost. But when he finds a label like "graviconcentrate", he thinks he's figured it all out an perks right up.

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