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Microstyle:
The Art of Writing Little

• Watch for The Name Inspector's book, coming from W.W. Norton & Co. in summer 2011! Microstyle is a field guide for the age of the incredible shrinking message. It reveals the secrets that make short verbal messages capture attention, stick in the mind, and roll off the tongue. Oh, and The Name Inspector wrote this book under his pen name, Christopher Johnson.

• [TNI's] blog is the best on naming I’ve ever seen. I’m buying his book. So should you.
  -Charles Bohannan, Wordful
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Big Picture Posts

• 10 name types
• Search engine names
• 10 tips for naming
• Metaphors for web search
• Six naming myths

Names

• 37signals
• Amazon
• Apple
• Bing
• Biznik
• Blekko
• Carticipate
• coRank
• Crop
• Digg
• Etsy
• Fabjectory
• Fairtilizer
• FedEx Kinko's
• Flickr
• Gnomedex
• How to Change the World
• Incesoft
• Incuby
• Jackson Fish Market
• Kijiji
• Lard Butt
• LiftPort
• Lilipip
• Limber Media
• Mapufacture
• MyBlogLog
• Noonhat
• Obama
• PageFlakes
• Pandora
• Pathable
• PostSecret
• Side Job Track
• Six Apart
• Skype
• Surface
• Syncplicity
• TechCrunch
• Teensurance
• Tenacious Offense
• Thoof
• Tinfinger
• TrenchMice
• Twine
• Twitter
• Unbox
• Utterz
• Verb for Shoe
• Waggle Labs
• Withoutabox
• YouTube
• ZenZui
• Zillow
• Zumobi

Categories

• Affixed Names (4)
• Bad Linguistics (4)
• Bad Names (18)
• Blend Names (8)
• Blog Names (5)
• Bragging (1)
• Company Names (42)
• Compound Names (7)
• Descriptive Names (5)
• Enigmatic Names (7)
• Events (11)
• Foreign Word Names (3)
• Good Names (23)
• Grammar (1)
• Hard Names (2)
• Iconic Names (4)
• Intro (1)
• Large Names (3)
• Links (4)
• Media Coverage (3)
• Metaphor (18)
• Metonymy (7)
• Name Changes (1)
• Names (52)
• Names in the Wild (9)
• Naming (11)
• Naming Stories (18)
• News (22)
• Offers (3)
• Orthography (3)
• Peculiar (2)
• Phonology (1)
• Phonotactics (1)
• Phrase Names (12)
• Product Names (5)
• Pronunciation (3)
• Pun Names (5)
• Real Word Names (17)
• Schematic Names (2)
• Seattle Interest (10)
• Small Names (5)
• Soft Names (4)
• Sound Symbolism (12)
• Startup Names (24)
• Trademark Issues (3)
• Tweaked Word Names (2)
• Types of Name (8)
  • Character Names (1)
• Uncategorized (15)
• Web App Names (11)
• Words (8)

Archives

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