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The title for your next book

by Matthew Stibbe on March 18, 2010

Naming things is hard so Russell Davies has come up with this helpful guide to picking a title for your next book. It’s bound to be a bestseller. (Hat tip: IO9 the site with the best tagline – ‘we come from the future’.)

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What’s in a name? Is it whiskey or whisky?

by Matthew Stibbe on January 18, 2010

My other blog, GolfHotelWhiskey.com, is a free online magazine and airport guide for pilots. I worked long and hard to come up with the name.
It replaced earlier sites of mine, including HappyLandings.net (which sort of worked but I didn’t have the .com domain name) and ModernPilot.com (which was supposed to be a magazine [...]

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Monkey-picked iron goddess of mercy tea

by Matthew Stibbe on January 13, 2010

I just got back from a wonderful week in San Francisco. I have a lot of new things to think about (which is why I love going there). But the first thing that comes to mind is the challenge and fun of picking a good product name.
I visited the Samovar Tea Lounge in Zen Valley [...]

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Version numbers 2.0

by Matthew Stibbe on July 20, 2009

Great article on Technologizer about the history of version numbers in product names. Ever wondered why Windows 7 is so called? What is the best version number ever? Read and find out. (More posts soon – I just have to finish my book!)

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How to name your space station

by Matthew Stibbe on March 25, 2009

NASA ran into problems with a public competition to name a new module on the International Space Station. It offered website visitors a shortlist of names to choose between but allowed them to write in their own choices.
According to Space.com, comedian Stephen Colbert encouraged viewers to write in his own name. When voting ended [...]

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