When I was working on my portfolio-site I was thinking about our projects name. And to jump on the bandwagon I thought about calling it “ePanopticon”, what I did in the name of the Hyperlink to this website. ePanopticon because the focus of our work lies on the social tendencies related to the so-called web 2.0 - using sociable web applications like Flickr, Blogs, del.icio.us etc. and thus leaving traces online. These traces are only virtual, electronically based - in form of digital data. These digital traces can be only cookies, a user name appearing somewhere in the web, IP-adresses stored on different sites or even photos or description of the personal life. We chose the term panopticon because these traces provide the possibility to keep track of other peoples activities, interests etc. and in return to be watched by other internet-users.

The other idea that came to my mind was “panopticon 2.0″ as we are dealing with the present tendencies of using more and more sociable web applications summarized under the buzzword web 2.0. But I really don’t like adding everywhere a “2.0″ to indicate to belong to something that is going on at the moment - but lacks a clear classification.

Ok, it is not the most important thing to think about how to name the framework for our work but it just came to my mind.