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I'm having trouble with their use of "burn". Is this a common idiom? I keep thinking it's like.. burning a disc? If you burn a file is that creating a torrent o
by cschep 16y ago
I'm having trouble with their use of "burn". Is this a common idiom? I keep thinking it's like.. burning a disc? If you burn a file is that creating a torrent of that file?
- zackattack 16y agothink feedburner
- hugh3 16y agoI still don't know what that is. It seems like every time I stop paying attention for a week somebody has invented a new verb.
- steveklabnik 16y agoI've heard of Feedburner (and had an account for a few years), and I didn't make the association. It's not just you.
- hugh3 16y ago... and yet you still won't tell me what it means?
- steveklabnik 16y agoSorry. Basically, FeedBurner was a startup that was acquired by Google that lets you input an RSS feed, and they produce another feed. You keep the original one secret, hand out theirs, and you get analytics and other features. Compare http://watch.steveklabnik.com/posts.rss http://watch.steveklabnik.com/posts.rss to http://feeds.feedburner.com/watch_steve_episodes http://feeds.feedburner.com/watch_steve_episodes to get an idea. They called this 'burning' a feed. I guess this is what they're alluding to; give me your media file, and I'll turn that into a torrent.
- gojomo 16y agoI thought feedburner's connotation was making a feed burn more brightly. I think burnbit is playing more off 'burning a CD/DVD'. I hadn't heard 'burn' used as a synonym for 'torrentize' before.
- seldo 16y agoI had exactly the same issue with Feedburner's name.
- hackount 16y agoI agree. When trying to coin a new terminology, try not to use one that's already been in use for 15 years or so... <i>especially</i> when they're both related to ways of transferring files. It makes even reading about their product confusing.
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- pygy_ 16y agoHowever, optical media is declining. I'm probably not representative, but I haven't burnt a disc in years. It may be the right time to overload the term.
- dkersten 16y agoNeither have I, but I think its still much too soon to reuse the word. I think it'll be a few more years yet before people disassociate burn with writing to optical media.
- sophacles 16y agoFurther, burning a disc has certain internal logic to it: Oh, the laser changes the medium's colour (like a sun burn, or a fire). This use of burn for a torrent doesn't really make sense to me. Why not grind or chop? (as in make a bunch of little pieces). Or maybe dice... this opens the door for silly puns quite nicely too.
- joshu 16y agoIt's a perfectly cromulent word.
- jasonkester 16y agoIt hurts my eyes to the point where I'm tempted to register torrentizr.com (it's available) and set up a competing service just so the terminology is corrected.