VoIP, surely ?

POSH, I suppose, could be used to distinguish sites that use semantic as opposed to rubbish old presentational HTML (hereon abbreviated to ROPH, which can “easily be verbed”). You could use it to shame your buddies into ‘POSHifying’ their sites: “Man your site is still coded in ROPH? That’s so lame! POSH is where it’s at bro! You need to deROPHulate and get POSHified!”

In my experience, people either ‘get’ semantic HTML pretty quickly, or they don’t at all (or they don’t care). If you get it, and you believe in it, then you’ll do your best to code ‘properly’. If you don’t, and/or you don’t care, then a cute acronym and a pseudo-aspirational grassroots campaign are not going to change your mind.

Spur of the moment alternative acronym with no more merit; and probably not suitable either - no one wants to crash, burn and end up as ash, do they ?

“We should use semantic HTML.”
“What’s that and why should we use it?”

to:

“We should use POSH.”
“What? Posh? Eh?”
“Yeah, you know - POSH. Plain Old Semantic HTML.”
“Oh. What’s that and why should we use it?”

Wow, great advance guys, inventing yet another acronym (which sounds identical to an actual word you might conceivably use to describe a piece of design) is really worth all the confusion right?

*rolls eyes*

I’m sorta with you on the rock star thing as well. Bit silly how a dozen odd folks have got that little cabal going on, you meet equally capable web people all over the place, all the time, pulling off sites just as (or more) functional and attractive without a speaking tour or needlessly invented new buzzword in sight.

But I suppose folks with a quiet permanent salaried gig don’t need all the self promotional blogging that you do when you’re freelance and selling books and stuff.

In an effort to move forward we have lost site of our craft.

“I want to say that creating POSH and supporting it is a cop out and a slap to the face of all those who have been working their butts off to get the concept of semantic HTML known while being consistent with–or at least similar to–the mass media’s dumbing down of the masses rather than making an effort to educate them”…

HTML is not plain or old. Just overlooked.

Boss: It looks pretty nice already.

Designer: No, I mean POSH, as in “plain-old semantic HTML.”

Boss: Really? That sounds boring. I don’t want our site to be plain or old.

Designer: But it’s a best-practices thing. Really–

Boss: Don’t bother. I don’t want our site to be behind the times.

Again, it makes sense.