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Re: Thursday, November 8, 2001
The survey is too limited (this from a guy who designed surveys for years!). As far as this IM business goes: I have it available, but find it horribly intrusive. The ability for other users to observe that one is online should not enable them to immediately engage (or attempt to do so) this person in an IM event. In my own case, this forces me to either "appear offline" to all, or to block out any number of users. Both of these feel all too disingenuous, and this makes me uncomfortable. So I have disabled all the IM programs. There's another way to look at this: the Blackberry/RIM e-mail pager, which enables two-way text paging. I love this wireless tool. It enables e-mail, forwarding, unobtrusive interaction, and enhances communication without being intimidating or just plain rude. Opening a separate window in links is a good thing IMHO. It maintains the original, referring page, and offers the linked page as an alternative view. Some may see it as a waste of resources, but in this day of more powerful processors, that shouldn't be too much of a concern. Also, if one wants to click the link and then view it later, after finishing or further investigating the original page, it enables the process. A good way to solve the should-I-or-shouldn't-I dilemma is to offer a yes/no radio button for the readers: open link as new page? This puts the decision in *their* court. Maybe one of those really capable people who help those of us who rely on the Manilla Newbies board for a lifeline will post the html for putting that on our blogs. Hmmm, maybe I'll send this URL to all the smart people on that list (HINT, HINT). What to call the dialogue, interaction, and sharing in this world? It might be blogversation. Or typetalk. Interblogation. Keyboardialogue. Or modern day communications. There are responses to this message:
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