Comments on: What’s in a name

By: Lisa Deeley Smith

Lisa Deeley Smith — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:20:51 +0000

I have always thought the name of your blog was one of the many witty things about it, as you are always writing about the condition of Iceland.

An occasional mention of the actual weather, especially weather trends, would agaqin be nice.

A button on the side for the literalists and the obtuse, perhaps.

By: JB in San Diego

JB in San Diego — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:40:44 +0000

How about the Iceland Whether Report, as in you are going to speak your mind whether or not anyone else agrees? Just kidding.

From a purely marketing standpoint, I think quirky names with a obscure but easy-to-find back story are the easiest to remember. I can think of blogs (and books) that I have read and wanted to share with friends, and just couldn’t come up with the name because it was too direct or plain.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:43:33 +0000

I like the name! Could you do some posts about the Icelandic weather, at least in general terms, from time to time?

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:35:12 +0000

Iceland Sex Report? Hmmmm… I think the current name is really cute so don’t change it.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:20:48 +0000

@Peter. hmmm, The Iceland sex report. Makes you wonder where some of our minds are

By: PeterRRRRR

PeterRRRRR — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:21:14 +0000

Maybe figure out some way to work “Sex” in the title? Sure to increase your page views

By: R.L.Dogh

R.L.Dogh — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:20:49 +0000

This blog appears in my windows because it is a weather report. As I fly I read weather reports, and never find them boring. Those here were always in sketch, never locating centres, pressures, directions and velocities at altitudes and all, but they gave generalities.
I thought when the reports ceased it was for the kreppa, that you had lost your weather together with all else, normal foods, drinks, civilisation and all that you had to sell. With enough geo-thermal to keep you warm, to generate power to light the governmen could sell Holland the sun, the Orkneys the wind, Scotland the sleet, Ireland the rain, give the clouds to the Faroes, couldn’t sell to them, and the snow to Greenland, whose glaciers are getting thin.
You are saying now the weather is still there? You have only moved your desk from the window?

By: Joerg

Joerg — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:47:59 +0000

You might provide the blog with a subheading to clarify things for the uninitiated but, please, do not change the name.

By: americangirl

americangirl — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:20:30 +0000

I think the name is still quite appropriate. Or maybe it would help if you called it The Iceland “Weather” Report?

By: sylvia hikins

sylvia hikins — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:19:23 +0000

Don’t change the name. One, because you now have a reputation and the name is known in many circles, and two, in English, taking the temperature is a phrase that is a bit like testing the water, which is often what your content does, so there is a nice double meaning. Weather. Temperature. Blowing hot or cold, etc etc.
sylvia from viking wirral.