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'What's in a name?' they say. In these days of the internet, the answer seems to be 'everything', so let me explain the name of my new website. I'm Niki B. In fact, I've been Niki B since I went to art college and the name's sort of stuck. Today it's how I'm known in the art world. But not the only Niki B, as I found out when I decided to launch myself into webspace. So I took some advice. 'Above all,' I was told by the experts I consulted, 'the website name should explain what it's about'. The name should also be as short as possible they said because the shorter the name the less likely it is to mistype. And it should be memorable, though that seemed fairly obvious, I thought. The name 'artefact' came to mind after all the possible variations of 'Mixed-Media Art Emporium' had been rejected because I remembered it as the buzzword one of my college tutors used. Then I discovered that North Americans prefer i...