BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Making the rounds in the advertising world is an interesting technique, termed viral marketing: making use of social software techniques learned from spammers, virus makers, and other experts of this nature. With viral marketing, rather than a formal ad campaign, with purchased space in newspapers and time on TV, you create […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Unmute was kind enough to point out the fact that the term “backchannel” is already a word used by linguists to designate the signals listeners give to a speaker to reaffirm that they’re still listening, and still engaged. According to unmute: What I find striking, from a language perspective, is that the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Some discussion recently about the new backchannels that are appearing at technical conferences. If you’re not familiar with the term, in this case it means that the people in the room are communicating with each other on an IRC channel while the presentation or talk is happening. Liz Lawley started an invitation […]
I wasn’t going to talk about backchannels, except I wanted to address a comment directly to Mark Pilgrim. I would send him an email, but he disregards them, and he doesn’t have comments. Mark, labeling people’s comments as hysterical because you don’t agree with them– or more likely because we’re part of a group of people who […]
We’re so used to thinking of each other as pages on a computer screen that it catches at me when I read something like Doug Alder’s current post containing photos of his hometown of Rossland in British Columbia. I grew up less than 50 miles from the town he describes. Down from the mountains, on the other […]