the following are presented without comment. except for the parts with comments.

[atrata]

This is stuff from the mod queue and my inbox. I really love that you guys submit posts and links, and I really hate that giant red "reject" button, but I think it's better to try and round up links in news posts than fill up the f-lists of a couple thousand people (!!) with small chunks of info.

• Pros and cons of Blurty - submitted by alamorte
  
• Newish scribblit comm for updates and information. - submitted by spygurl121
  
• Scribblit's servers will be in Canada. Further discussion here. - submitted by sciencegeek
  
• The Basics of RSS and LiveJournal (and the LJ clones). There's been a lot of stuff flying around lately about RSS feeds -- what they are, how they work, etc. -- and vichan has written a tutorial about them and their potential to help fandom stay connected, even if we all end up at 14 different blogging sites. - submitted by vichan
  
• pay_no_more. If you've decided to stop giving money to LJ/6A, this is the place to make it known. - submitted by waset
  
• The owner of Squidge is hosting an IRC chat to discuss new features, service improvements, etc. It's this coming Tuesday at 7.30 PST. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to make it, so I'll be expecting y'all to keep me informed. - submitted by calime33 and greensage

Now, in regards to the name post... we're not there yet, but I think we're getting closer. Some thoughts:

• I agree with the many people who are against having the word "fan" in the name, because we don't want to alienate non-fen.
  
• If, however, we're intent on something with that f-a-n letter combo, we should look for something where it's subtle, already part of a larger word (e.g., "fanfare," suggested here (with others) by copinggoggles).
  
• I also don't think we want to be all INTRNETZ IZ SRS BIZNEZ about it, so we should go for something with a hint of whimsy.
  
• tekanji makes a good suggestion here: "I would recommend combining two words that describe what kind of service you're offering (ala. Live Journal, Word Press, Type Pad). Maybe figure out what features will make your service stand out and create a name from that."

Further thoughts and suggestions? Keep 'em coming! I am obviously unfit to make naming decisions, because the Mafia fangirl in me will go with "Our Thing" and call it good. Remember that we can also make up a word or egregiously misspell something. It's the web2.0 way!