BurningbirdFor someone interested in this sort of thing–I am interested in this sort of thing, aren’t I?–I never did make a statement about Google’s Gmail. Gmail is a centralized email system with virtually unlimited space to hold your messages, and with the ability to use Google’s search algorithms to research your email. Bells and whistles […]
I was so very pleased about the turnout for the Women’s march last Sunday. What impressive pictures there were! All those people, united in support of a woman’s right to control her own destiny. I can’t really add much to the discussion on this March that hasn’t been ably said by Feministe, Body & Soul, and Ampersand. However, […]
Recovered 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 […]