[Geowanking] what is in a name!

[Landon Blake]

The A-List aint all its craked up to be.

I'll take the Ghetto any day.

I did wonder about the name "Geowanking" when I first heard about the list, but I described anyways, and the conversation so far has been great.

Just curious, what does "wanking" mean in Non-US-English.

The Sunburned Surveyor

-----Original Message-----
From: geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to [mailto:geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to] On Behalf Of Mike Liebhold
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:28 AM
To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] what is in a name!

Jim Youll wrote:

> ... difficult  for stuff from the list to cross over credibly into the 
> real world ...     names  do matter for (in)visibility and this one 
> could prove limiting.


Thanks Jim.  this is true, but there's something comfortable about the 
candor of the dialog here, sheltered by a disreputable name.

The list name hasn't prevented lots of great ideas and memes discussed 
on geowanking to escape and  morph  into real projects, real 
collaborations, real friends in the real world.

My original point was:  if you want to invited to A-List conferences, 
you have to get on the A-List. This is the G-ghetto.

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> On Dec 1, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
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>> FWIW I agree with those who find the name rather fitting (and  
>> funny).  :-)
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