links for 2007-08-30

• If it's on Google Docs, your content belongs to Google
  "The Terms of Service posted on the Google Docs and Spreadsheets site assigns content rights of anything saved on Doc and Spreadsheets to Google." (From Josh Greenbaum in ZDnet)
  (tags: google)
• After spam, here comes bacn (read: "bacon")
  According to the bloggers who invented the term just a few weeks ago, "bacn" is e-mail you want to read just not now. A story by Eric Weiner at NPR, who quotes me explaining why "bacn" isn't one of my favorite dishes.
  (tags: bacn spam oddities)
• TEh INTeRn3T i5 THr3@+EN1N9 t0 Ch@n93 thE W4Y wE $p34k
  Translation: The Internet is threatening to change the way we speak. An article in the Wall Street Journal about the growing offline (spoken) popularity of online slang, acronyms, and linguistic codes. (Thanks Amir for the link)
• The Next Generation of Online Shorthand
  The New York Times' David Pogue offers an updated list of online acronyms. (TI4TL - that's thanx Isaiah for the link)