I think in general a .net .org etc ending is going to be best long term.
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“Edge of town” still has a .net and .org available, which is kind of Elsewhere/End of the World-ish, but also Nick Cavey.
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Now I have the Crying Song stuck in my head. Except I hear: This is the crying blog. Instead of song.
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Reminds me of The Crying Game. I watched that not so long ago. Boy, that did not age well.
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Wow. It’s the Weeping Song, not the Crying Song.
How so? I haven’t seen it since I saw it in the theater on its original run.
Also, feel free to comment about why you voted the way you did, support your favorites, or throw shade on your least favorites. I’m personally going to refrain from commenting on any particular names to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
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Aw - I had it narrowed down to 5.
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Reasons:
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Elsewhere.cafe:
… If it didn’t have connotations, it’d be my favourite. It has the right ‘feel’ and I could see it being used. (Plus I could say “Meanwhile, Elsewhere…” which deserves to be a thing.
). Even works with the .cafedomain, which takes some doing.
But it does have connotations, and I neither want to be that petty myself, nor reward pettiness. I do wonder about cutting one’s nose off to spite one’s face though. It’s a nice name. Is HMSelsewhere a compromise, or just a kludge? -
AllThelikes.domain:
…This is catchy and clever. Not so hot on the banner, but I could see this being effective in link-sharing and promoting articles elsewhere. [Edit: Unless the banner is just ‘ATL’? I think I like that.]
On the down side, it is a little ‘link-farm-y’? -
Commentariat.domain:
Kinda what we’re about, and ‘The Commentariat’ should be a thing.
Plus and minus that it’ll be taken as (gasp) Socialist (or worse!)
(Adhocracy.domain likewise, but will we remain an adhocracy?) -
Endoftheworld.domain
The civilised edge of the Internet?
). Even works with the I’m not keen on the Numbersstation idea - lots of our peers know what numbers stations are, and we’re not about that. Annoying users by polluting their searches does not happy recruits make. Similarly snarkexchange
I’m also not keen on the ‘angry mutants’ ones, for more extreme versions of the doubts about elsewhere.
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I want to point out the edit, that if the AllTheLikes banner on the site is just ‘ATL’, then that becomes pretty damn good visually, with a play on the ATL/BTL distinction on news sites, to boot.
This may now be my favourite.
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ATL just makes me think of Atlanta.
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Fair point. I lack that context, so don’t see that.
Is that a general US thing, do you think?
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If you vote for AllTheLikes, the terrorists have already won.
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From the narrowed list I’m going for:
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Commentariat.co
Because that’s who we are. The class of people who chat about things. And we appear to have already seized the means of discourse. -
Adhocracy.cafe
This seems appropriate, because we’re all just figuring this out for ourselves, it’s a sideways nod at where we came from, and the whole thing is just a bit of emergent anarchic culture (or even Culture) -
Rebelmutant.com
Very simply, we are the rebel mutants. The ones who walked away.
I’m deliberately avoiding the elsewheres, because I don’t want us to be defined by the negative incident that sparked all this off. Yes, it’s our past but I want something that will be meaningful in five years.
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There was a 2006 movie called “ATL”, and there seems to be an increasing trend to call major cities by their 3-letter airport codes in some, but not all cases. A lot of that seems to come from hip-hop.
E.g. ATL, STL, PDX, SFO, SLC, JAX, DFW, PHX
But not for cities with multiple airports and/or not named after the city itself – New York, Chicago, Miami. And LAX seems to be specific to the airport rather than LA in general.
Also sometimes the city is “the TLA” for some reason, as in “raising hell in the ATL” or whatever 
I’m not sure how new this is though, come to think of it. Sarasota, Florida even had a local magazine called SRQ, which was the code for its airport with one terminal that was too small to qualify as international at the time and usually just shuttled people to bigger cities to get on a “real” plane.
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I forget if I mentioned it here or not, but… I own chatwithus.org and would happily donate it to the cause.
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Dunno how well it fits, but it’s a worthy gesture. 
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The big shocking reveal seems way less shocking these days.
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When I saw it, the big reveal had already been blown. I’ve wondered if that was why I didn’t think the film was as great as so many others did.
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My favorites are:
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AllTheLikes… this feels happy and friendly to me, with just enough of a reference to our fun back at the bbs without the unpleasant reminders that the Elsewhere names might hold. And while we’ll probably always be Mutants in one way or another, that’s kind of a BoingBoing trademark and we’re trying to do our own thing here.
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Adhocracy… it’s another reference to doing our own thing, in our own way, and it’s pretty catchy.
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Sanctuary… where our community can be a community, a refuge and a celebration of ourselves, to share with each other and with the Web at large, as we choose.
That’s my two cents, FWIW. Though I also want to compliment @waetherman for his most excellent reasoning in generating the semi-finals. Eris approves, and so do I!
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