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New Name?

As I've gotten closer to the 1.0 release of Sid, I've been thinking about the application's name. While Sid is interesting in a vague sort of way, I've had trouble coming up with a decent icon, or brand, for the app. So over the last couple days I've been pondering a new name. Jodi and I were brainstorming last night, and one of our ideas was "Podium" – a place to get your message out. Not too shabby for a weblog tool perhaps?

Today as a way of exploring the idea, I spent some time working on an icon/logo for it:

So – does it work? Should I go back to the drawing board? What do you think?

My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.