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I've been thinking about adding an FAQ to the blog. You know, just to flesh out the description and give the one or two people who stumble onto this site a bit more background information on the what, the why, and the how. What's funny about the idea is that it assumes there are actually "frequently asked questions" that demand to be answered. Which, of course, there aren't. There aren't even infrequently asked questions. (Hey! That's a good name for the new section: "IAQ.")

For similar reasons, it always amuses me when sites launch with an FAQ. If you've just launched, how can you have any frequently asked questions? I guess it shows that the term "FAQ" can't be taken literally anymore. It's really become more of a generic initialism that means, "Here are the questions we anticipate you may have, along with answers we feel address those questions." (And by the way, I say "initialism" because "FAQ" is pronounced "eff ay cue," and not "fak." If it were the latter, I'd have used "acronym." Sheesh, this is rapidly degenerating into one of William Safire's "On Language" columns in The New York Times Magazine. Minus the wit and style.)

Anyway, it seems to me that if you launch with an FAQ, it means you were unable to explain your product or service or content adequately on the page itself, so you felt compelled to stick that info on another page. Maybe it means your product or service or content is too complicated. Or just lame.

Look for my own lame FAQ--make that "IAQ"--in the coming days or weeks.

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