I started writing a rebuttal to each point JV raised but I ended up dumping it since I can see we're never going to agree. To be honest, from my side I don't really care. My answer was only following logic and English word semantics (that's why I referred to that blog article - In that case it was an article, which is btw way more "Human" than "post") but we can't agree for several reasons, one of them being that the majority of us are not native English speaking and thus our perceptions of the words are skewed from the onset. The other being that some of us favor word meanings while others favor word perceptions. I'll leave it to you guys to decide but please don't make this process too long, it's not worth it. Thanks -Vincent On Nov 8, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On Nov 8, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
Thinking about the action the user is doing I prefer "Write a new blog post" to "Post a new entry". Posting a new entry sounds too techie to me. I'd even prefer "Create" rather than "Write" ;)
"Create blog entry" sounds clearer to me than "Create blog post". A blog post is the entry when it's been posted.
So, let's compare "Create blog entry" and "Write a new blog post". Your proposal make me see a "Create blog entry" button in some menu, then a "Create" button in the creation form. I'd prefer to see a "Write a new blog post" button and then a "Publish" button, this seems more "humane" to me.
You can't create a blog post since it's not yet been posted :)
And if you create a blog entry it still have to be written :)
Our framework must be generic but I don't see why our terminologies should. I like when a software terminology refers to more IRL stuff, I prefer "people" to "users", I prefer to have a dock than a taskbar, and when it comes to write something (note/blog post/message) I like to see the word "Write" not "Create" :)
Yep, for the humans, +1 !
ps : When I'm talking to someone I tend to say "Have you seen the last post on AnyGeekyBlog", not "Have you seen the last entry on AnyGeekyDatabase^WBlog".
JV.