{"id":328,"date":"2008-09-08T01:40:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T06:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=328"},"modified":"2008-10-09T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:31:44","slug":"hey-internet-help-us-name-our-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/hey-internet-help-us-name-our-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Internet, Help Us Name Our Child!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/photos\/photo\/1435736276\/happy-anniversary-at-sarava.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1142\/1435736276_9214efa06c_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Happy Anniversary at Sarava\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> My wife and I are expecting, and thus we have to pick a name for our new baby.  We&#8217;ve perused baby name websites and <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/14\/the-unpredictability-of-baby-names\/\">tried the Freakonomics tactic of predicting popular names<\/a>, but to be honest none of it was really working.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/standard-disclaimer\/\">As a Googler<\/a>, though, the answer should have been obvious &#8211; let the Internet do it!  So that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing, opening up our baby&#8217;s name to an Internet-wide vote.*<\/p>\n<p>In the next couple days I&#8217;ll also put up a live graph of the results.  If you&#8217;d like to learn how to use Google Docs and Spreadsheets to put a poll on your site (or name your baby), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/create-a-survey-or-poll-for-your-blog-with-google-docs-and-spreadsheets\/\">check out this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to send this link to your friends, put it up on social news sites, or write about it on your blog &#8211; the more votes the better.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/embeddedform?key=ppevxmL24UqnHJ2Ld9H5BCg\" width=\"440\" height=\"1203\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\">Loading&#8230;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t see the poll, <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/viewform?key=ppevxmL24UqmNVOru0MzmMg\">follow this link<\/a> to get to it.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:  Here&#8217;s a little preview graph, with the most popular boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; names so far.  I&#8217;ll add a graph with  user-suggested names soon too. <\/p>\n<p>DOUBLE EDIT:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2008\/internet-baby-naming-update\/\">I&#8217;ve moved the graphs to the next page, so as not to influence the voting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TRIPLE EDIT:  The form isn&#8217;t working for some readers, it looks like all the visitors from neatorama have taken Docs by surprise.  I&#8217;ll talk to some folks at work tomorrow.  If you can&#8217;t see the form, please try back again a little later.  If you <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/jason-morrison\">subscribe to my blog<\/a> you&#8217;ll see an update when I&#8217;m sure everything&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>* We do reserve the right to ignore the results of the poll completely.  Otherwise we&#8217;ll end up with a kid named <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2007\/12\/12\/mr-splashy-pants-greenpeace\/\">Mr. Splashy Pants<\/a>.  Actually, that has a nice ring to it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I are expecting, and thus we have to pick a name for our new baby. We&#8217;ve perused baby name websites and tried the Freakonomics tactic of predicting popular names, but to be honest none of it was really working. 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