George Wallace is interviewed about his blog by the Insurance Journal. Note the other quality insurance related blogs he mentions! He does a great job of pronouncing the names of these other quality blogs.
Update: David Giacalone has also posted about George's interview. After reading his links, I don't think David or George will particularly like the just coined term "Insblogs", but Ins-Web Journals might violate someone's intellectual property.
UP-Update: George is taking accolades here and here and David doesn't like the term "Insblogs" (and I really don't blame him).
Hmmm. Does coining "insblogs" make you a "hipster insider" or a "teenybopper"? (see this lament). Couldn't you find a more melliflous French term?
Oh-oh. You now have "teenybopper" and "naked" [and "French"!] on your home page at the same time. You'll soon be coming up in some very interesting Google searches.
Posted by: david giacalone | October 29, 2004 at 09:31 PM
How about Les journal des Risques. Then I'll have teenybopper, naked, bare, and risque on my website!
Posted by: Martin | November 01, 2004 at 11:18 AM
I like it. But, couldn't you also get the "internet" or "web" concept in the terminology?
I wish I didn't have to stop and check my spelling, and slow down already feeble typing, every time I cite your weblog! It's almost as bad has having to insert parentheses or brackets in a weblog name.
(SpellCheck: In the first Comment, please stick a "u" after the "fl" in "mellifluous". Who is that reckless visitor?)
Posted by: Prof Yabut | November 01, 2004 at 01:01 PM
When I get the time I am going to ditch the name go with the simple riskprof. I read Fed 84's useful column (@ http://www.legalunderground.com/2004/10/guestpost.html) and it seems to me that I could either be riskprof.com or "f/k/a the guy who called his blog a tort et a travers.com."
Posted by: Martin | November 01, 2004 at 07:19 PM
RiskProf is perfect: catchy, memorable and descriptive; plus, it is already in the URL of all of your prior posts.
Since I believe in googling before naming a weblog, I just googled it for you. No website has that name (but note: it seems to be the file name for a Risk Profiling software product).
You might be surprised that newsimages.com has captured an image of "riskprof". Scroll down to the third row. Looks like a group weblog.
Fed84 didn't cover the problem of finding your voice/identity/limitations after you name your weblog. Although f/k/a seemed quite appropriate for a multi-nomered URL, it does have the problem of not connoting anything. I'm glad I thought to stick "haikuEsq" in my tagline, while having "ethicalEsq" remain in the URL. Tricky business nomenclature.
From now on, when not using your proper name, you shall be dubbed RiskProf at my weblog. Please come up with something other than RiskProfBlog for the official name of you site. Possibilities (some more mundane than others):
The RiskProf Journal
The RiskProf Ledger
The RiskProf Addendum
The RiskProf Audit
The RiskProf Subsidy
The RiskProf Affidavit
The RiskProf Amendment
The RiskProf First Draft
The RiskProf Pool
The RiskProf Endorsement
The RiskProf Binder
The RiskProf Loop Hole
The RiskProf Exemption
The RiskProf Weblog
The RiskProf Fudge Factor
The RiskProf's Last Word
Posted by: Prof Yabut | November 01, 2004 at 10:14 PM