I actually kind of like ‘whiteboard’, which sounds specific enough to mean something, provides some vague connotations that point in the right direction, but not the sort of thing you think you’ll understand well enough to have strong opinions about initially before mousing over it and getting a tooltip.
(Intended connotation is “the place where you right down ideas and models and observations, which are clearly supposed to be in the overall genre of science, but not (necessarily) late-stage-high-effort-peer-reviewed science”)
Yeah, “Core” felt more like it should be “core reading that you’re expected to have an understanding of if you’re participating on the site” a la sequences.
Brainstorm:
Inquiry
Science
Journal
Workshop
Whiteboard
Default
Common
Context
Model-building
Observations and Models
Sparkly Pink Purple Ball Zone
I actually kind of like ‘whiteboard’, which sounds specific enough to mean something, provides some vague connotations that point in the right direction, but not the sort of thing you think you’ll understand well enough to have strong opinions about initially before mousing over it and getting a tooltip.
(Intended connotation is “the place where you right down ideas and models and observations, which are clearly supposed to be in the overall genre of science, but not (necessarily) late-stage-high-effort-peer-reviewed science”)
Frontpage ➜ Whiteboard
Art ➜ Canvas
Coordination ➜ Bulletin Board
Meta ➜ Website
I’m not a native speaker but the term Bulletin Board maps for my intutive sense to immediately to vbulletin.
Meta seems to me much clearer then Website.
Personal Blog ➜ Notebook
Messages ➜ Mailbox
I like Whiteboard for Frontpage.
The only alternative I’ve thought of which might work is Origin (or Genesis) - intended connotation is both “place to start” and “new ideas”.
“Default” and “Common” feel wrong, but perhaps “Core” has a place somewhere? “This is what we’re here for; the rest is in support of it.”
Yeah, “Core” felt more like it should be “core reading that you’re expected to have an understanding of if you’re participating on the site” a la sequences.
I like whiteboard the best. Only ones I feel aversion to are Science and sparkly purple ball. Default and common feel no better than front page.