Jericho: Womic

Independent invention have it's low points. I'm sure I've mentioned before that I seem to be running on a string of ideas for product and other things that other people get to market at just about the time I think of them. It might have something to do with the fact that there are millions (even billions) of people out there who are thinking everyday. My silly ego has trouble accepting that.

This idea, however, just isn't that big of a deal. I've been thinking about web comics a lot recently as I am about to post mine. (Sixty one strips! Woo Hoo!) It occurred to me that the terminology we strippers deal with could use a little pruning.

What am I talking about? Well, I am about to set up a site for an online comic strip or a web comic. These words are kinda bulky. Shouldn't we have a term or a bit of jargon to shorten this up? I mean, right now you are reading an online journal or a web log - these are called blogs. The term blog has gotten used so much that most dictionaries are now including it - it's a legit word.

So, as I showered Sunday, I came to a bit of a thought. "Blog" is merely a contraction of "Web Log" - why not contract "Web Comic" into "Womic?" I'd love to be the guy that came up with a new computer term. I mean, someone out there came up with "blog" - right? Max nearly coined the term "turkey bacon" - he was beat out by only one person we are aware of. So, great, womic!

I went out today and discovered, while not very well known, "womic" has been around since at least 2002. I'm not the first. It's not like the term is all that hard to come to - "blog" uses the last letter of the first word of the contraction - this is a little brainier than my contraction. But, "bomic" just sounds like shit!

Either way, I think I'm going to start using the term more often. You'll see it bounced around here plenty from now on. You have been warned.