Comments on: Snowflake Tip Of The Week: Gaining Popularity http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/2008/05/07/snowflake-tip-of-the-week-gaining-popularity/ A Compendium of Snowflaking Blogs Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:29:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: paidtwice http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/2008/05/07/snowflake-tip-of-the-week-gaining-popularity/#comment-227 paidtwice Sat, 10 May 2008 15:01:08 +0000 http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/?p=33#comment-227 When i first started blogging, I used to just randomly say "snowflaking" thinking everyone knew what I meant. Since I had been exposed to it on the iVillage board (and I don't know if they invented the term but that's as far as I can trace it) I thought it was some common terminology that everyone knew. And people would respond to my posts with "Huh?" and "What is snowflaking?" So I wrote the snowflaking primer to explain what I was talking about. I didn't know it would catch on so well. ;) And it's snowballed, heh heh, from there. I didn't invent the term or the concept, I just helped to popularize it - well, as much as anything is popularized within the confines of the personal finance blogosphere. I hope someday to see it in the dictionary. ;) When i first started blogging, I used to just randomly say “snowflaking” thinking everyone knew what I meant. Since I had been exposed to it on the iVillage board (and I don’t know if they invented the term but that’s as far as I can trace it) I thought it was some common terminology that everyone knew.

And people would respond to my posts with “Huh?” and “What is snowflaking?”

So I wrote the snowflaking primer to explain what I was talking about. I didn’t know it would catch on so well. ;) And it’s snowballed, heh heh, from there. I didn’t invent the term or the concept, I just helped to popularize it - well, as much as anything is popularized within the confines of the personal finance blogosphere.

I hope someday to see it in the dictionary. ;)

]]> By: fivecentnickel.com http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/2008/05/07/snowflake-tip-of-the-week-gaining-popularity/#comment-226 fivecentnickel.com Sat, 10 May 2008 01:27:32 +0000 http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/?p=33#comment-226 Hah! I guess I never read to the very end of that post. :) Hah! I guess I never read to the very end of that post. :)

]]> By: fivecentnickel.com http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/2008/05/07/snowflake-tip-of-the-week-gaining-popularity/#comment-225 fivecentnickel.com Sat, 10 May 2008 01:25:39 +0000 http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/?p=33#comment-225 Interesting. I should hang out at iVillage more often. :) Did they call it snowflaking over there? Or did you come up with the name? It's certainly clever. Guess I need to re-read the primer! Interesting. I should hang out at iVillage more often. :)

Did they call it snowflaking over there? Or did you come up with the name? It’s certainly clever. Guess I need to re-read the primer!

]]> By: paidtwice http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/2008/05/07/snowflake-tip-of-the-week-gaining-popularity/#comment-224 paidtwice Fri, 09 May 2008 04:18:33 +0000 http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/?p=33#comment-224 @fcn - I actually first learned about snowflaking from an i-village messageboard that has been practicing snowflaking for several years now, that is cited in my snowflaking primer. I don't claim to have created it, or have come up with the name - I just talk about it an awful lot because I'm infatuated with it. NCN is certainly a great example of someone who put the concept of micropayments to debt to great use in eliminating his own, and I'm also an enthusiastic supporter of his :) @fcn - I actually first learned about snowflaking from an i-village messageboard that has been practicing snowflaking for several years now, that is cited in my snowflaking primer. I don’t claim to have created it, or have come up with the name - I just talk about it an awful lot because I’m infatuated with it. NCN is certainly a great example of someone who put the concept of micropayments to debt to great use in eliminating his own, and I’m also an enthusiastic supporter of his :)

]]> By: Brip Blap http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/2008/05/07/snowflake-tip-of-the-week-gaining-popularity/#comment-223 Brip Blap Fri, 09 May 2008 01:28:33 +0000 http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/?p=33#comment-223 You could almost say there's something of a 'revolution' underway! :) And I entered the carnival, too ;) Steve You could almost say there’s something of a ‘revolution’ underway! :) And I entered the carnival, too ;)

Steve

]]> By: fivecentnickel.com http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/2008/05/07/snowflake-tip-of-the-week-gaining-popularity/#comment-222 fivecentnickel.com Thu, 08 May 2008 20:37:30 +0000 http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/?p=33#comment-222 To be fair, my mention of "snowflaking" was in a post talking about NCN's ideas regarding making micropayments. He was doing that (and writing about it) well before anyone ever thought to call it "snowflaking," yet he gets virtually no credit for the idea. To be fair, my mention of “snowflaking” was in a post talking about NCN’s ideas regarding making micropayments. He was doing that (and writing about it) well before anyone ever thought to call it “snowflaking,” yet he gets virtually no credit for the idea.

]]> By: Money Watch http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/2008/05/07/snowflake-tip-of-the-week-gaining-popularity/#comment-220 Money Watch Wed, 07 May 2008 20:51:18 +0000 http://www.snowflakerevolution.com/?p=33#comment-220 I'm not high profile, but i've recently mentioned snowflaking too! http://money-watch.co.uk/3964/snowballing-snowflaking-debt I’m not high profile, but i’ve recently mentioned snowflaking too!

http://money-watch.co.uk/3964/snowballing-snowflaking-debt

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