At age 76, my friend’s dad just bought his first computer: a MacBook. He’s getting set up with all of the best web based tools to use, including gmail. He was getting a computer lesson from his son-in-law and I chatted him up. Despite what he says, he’s doing an excellent [...]
Tag Archives: instant messaging
IM talking points
2 Nov 06 – 10:23 pm
No matter how much I seem to flap my gums about instant messaging, I still find some people are interested. As I mentioned in the previous post, the conversation has shifted from getting the occasional “Meh” or “Nope, no way” to “Yes! I know I need to do this, but no one else [...]
omgbbq
3 Oct 06 – 11:48 am
A while back I posted about IM and SMS ruining Canadian’s command of grammar. I missed a useful bit in the study, which I’ll now post here. The University of Toronto magazine [scroll down] lists the frequency at which IM lingo is used.
Frequency per 100,000 words:
LOL — “laughing out loud”: 195
omg [...]
IM and SMS not ruining Canadian’s command of grammar
2 Aug 06 – 1:45 pm
While there’ve been a few studies decrying IM and SMS’s impact on people’s ability to speak “properly,” many articles seem to think that texters are still obeying the rules of grammar and simply using a rich, shorthand language in their messages. My wife taught me about code switching, which is the process of changing [...]
fire, brimestone, and questionpoint
22 Jun 06 – 2:26 pm
All I could think about while Rick and I tested the latest version of OCLC’s QuestionPoint virtual reference software was Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now [...]
MySpace Messenger
13 Mar 06 – 12:33 pm
UPDATE 3.14 – Skagirlie notes that the link I gave is now a redirect to MySpace’s homepage. So here are two links to rather boring screenshots:
buddylist | message
In all of the talks I give on IM I mention “the big three” IM networks: AOL, Yahoo, and MSN. Looks like that trinity will have [...]
immedi.at
23 Nov 05 – 4:18 pm
I don’t do much quick linking here, but if no one else is going to post about this, I will. Why? Because it combines two great things: IM and RSS.
This service let’s you subscribe to RSS feeds via an IM account. It works though a bookmarket named “monitor this” which [...]
AIM presence
6 Oct 05 – 1:33 pm
AOL Instant Messenger is looking to gain some real estate on your website through AIM Presence. A very short registration gives you a line of code to paste into your site. This code will display one of a six small icons, indicating whether you are online, offline, idle, away, or on mobile [...]
website kaput
27 Sep 05 – 4:07 pm
I just got done talking for an entire hour into my telephone. Wow! I was speaking to librarians in Canada about Instant Messaging in libraries for an Education Institute program.
For those people visiting this site for the first time, and anyone else poking around, I must say that I broke the links below [...]
