BusinessSpew Generator
Just a quick note about a domain I recently purchased, after what seems like an eternity of biding my time…
Way back years ago I stumbled across a site called the Business Spew Generator, a one page website with the sole purpose of generating business buzzword phrases on demand. The page was was written in Javascript and therefore easy to disassemble, and I downloaded a copy for analysis.
Skip forward to last year, and I felt the urge to develop an up to date version of this site using Prototype, a new Javascript library. Problem was the author of the original site had since died, and the site was offline, although the domain name hadn’t yet expired.
What to do? Could I release a new version under a different site name? Of course I could, and so Corporate Bullshit! was born. The new site retained the original “press button, receive jargon” format, but with the addition of a set of five Daily Bullshits, supported by an archive of the past few days pages.
Skip forward again to this week, and I was reminded to check the domain name status for the old BusinessSpew site. Bingo! The domain had expired in March, and was now available to register.
So, as the proud new owner of LeveragedSynergies.com I can now execute critical action items on forward engineering new paradigm solutions…
Business Spew Generator – www.leveragedsynergies.com
Update 13th November 2011: The leveraged synergies domain has been left to expire sometime ago. Also check below for comments…
I am pleased to see Business Spew resurrected.
It was created by my dear friend Wilson Rogers who died after a long battle with Leukemia at only 40-something. The idea came from a discussion we had one night about a small application I had written years earlier called Jive (the world’s first true WORD processor).
Wilson was a brilliant man and a treasure to have as a (fellow-geeky) friend.
He is also the author of WRBBS – a Bulletin Board System that is still in use today! He developed and wrote it in GWBasic (originally) and later ported it to Delphi.
Wilson used WRBBS to operate his own BBS for many, many years.
I hope (respectfully request) that now you know a bit of the history, you will honor Wilson’s memory by acknowledging him as the author of the original Business Spew.
Hi Parkin,
Both yourself and Wilson sound like my kind of people.
In fact a credit has been in place for a good couple of years now (hint: look down the left column on the corporate bs site), and I am only too happy to publish your comments to tell more of the story.
Regards,
Paul