When referring to those little widgets like MyBlogLog that spruce up a page, do you say “flair” or “flare”? The first place I heard the term was Office Space, and they call it flair:
Peter: What are pieces of flair?
Joanna: That’s where you know, suspenders and buttons and all sorts of stuff. We’re, uh, we’re actually required to wear fifteen pieces of flair.
But then FeedBurner refers to their product to add widgets at the bottom of feeds as FeedFlare. Not to nitpick (alright, it’s a nitpick), but I think Feedburner picked the wrong flare. It should be FeedFlair, right? Okay, too much with the nitpicking. I’ll stop.
Published by Matt Cutts
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