If Obama wins the presidential election, he won’t just make history for being the first black president of the United States. He’ll also break new linguistic ground in the list of presidents’ names. And The Name Inspector is not talking about the fact that his middle name is Hussein. Coming to terms with the blend [...]

Until that elusive next name analysis appears, The Name Inspector would like to offer his readers another rare treat: a chance at a free pass to the Biznik-sponsored BizJam indie business conference happening next Wednesday and Thursday in Seattle. Long-time readers, or readers who’ve done some clicking around on this blog, might remember The Name [...]

Sometimes The Name Inspector has little passing thoughts that never amount to blog posts, so he’s decided to try this “Twitter” thing all the kids are talking about. Follow him at http://twitter.com/name_inspector. And no, he hasn’t stopped writing real posts. An unusual one is coming soon.
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After a brief scare, The Name Inspector is happy to report that his WordPress installation is up-do-date, his blog spam-free, and his musings back in Google search results. Something at Google is working very efficiently, whether it’s the crawl or the appeal process, and The Name Inspector appreciates that.

The Name Inspector is reaching out to regular readers with a warning and a plea. It will be mostly regular readers reading this, because The Name Inspector has been dropped from Google search results. Until recently this site was among the top ten or so results for searches on “company names” and “naming”, and now [...]

Seattle 2.0 says The Name Inspector is one of the most influential entrepreneur-bloggers of Seattle. Number 4, to be exact. That’s right, The fourth most influential entrepreneur-blogger in Seattle! The Name Inspector can already feel the power working its way to his extremities. Marcelo Calbucci, the brains behind Seattle 2.0, said in his notification email [...]

The Seattle-based mobile platform company ZenZui recently changed its name to Zumobi, in preparation for a beta release in December. The name ZenZui was based on the word zen plus the acronym zui, which stands for ‘Zooming User Interface’. That’s the technology, developed at Microsoft Research, that Zumobi claims will take the pain out of [...]

Somehow The Name Inspector has taken over the top blog spot on Technorati, beating out Engadget, Boing Boing, and all the other usual suspects. And with an authority rating of only 170. OK, so this is some kind of bug on Technorati. But The Name Inspector finds it pretty amusing.
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Marcelo Calbucci, founder and CTO of Sampa, invited The Name Inspector to do a guest post for his Seattle 2.0 blog. The post is up. It’s a brief and basic naming primer for entrepreneurs. Readers of this blog, connoisseurs that you are, may find the material a bit elementary, but just in case you want [...]

James Callan over at Seattlest has posted an interview with The Name Inspector–or rather, with the fellow behind The Name Inspector.
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