Online etiquette, aka netiquette, has always been a touchy topic. Thankfully, there are lots of resources out there for people who are interested in learning about how to properly behave online such as NetManners.com. Now, how to tactfully tell people face-to-face they should consult such resources? 🙂
Even though I have blogs at LJ, Xanga, MySpace, and Friendster, I had to try to ressucitate my old main blog for Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric.
I learned about Friendster’s new blogs through an article at The Social Software Weblog. It gave me a reason to look at Friendster again. I have not gotten any friend requests or other messages so it kind of fell off my radar.
I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso
Pretzels or hotdogs? Gentleman, welcome to Google Fight.
Maybe, just maybe… the deep chill about preventing competitors from using one’s instant messaging protocol have somewhat melted. AOL, Yahoo, and MSN all team up to make interoptable MS’ enterprise IM product. Just around the corner are our desktop clients. Of course, my Trillian will be worthless. Then again, I paid my dues a couple…
Think everyone might be able to use this. Ever have someone post an acronym you can’t decipher? Something like “WYLABOCTGWTR”? Well, how about an Acronyms Dictionary? Preserved comments: fun stuff! 🙂 Posted 1/19/2004 10:18 AM by melally Sneeze, you are weird. most of the time its just as easy to say the whole phrase as it is…
Lots of places offer resources for creating online groups. Think this is an excellent service to provide the Internet community. However, managing these animals can be time intensive. People need help learning how to use it. People selfishly bend or break rules. At times, I wonder, “Why am I do I bother?” Then I find…
Maybe it is just me, but why is it that no one can invent a great email program? I mean, they really all suck. Nothing is built for my needs… huge volumes of email, lots of important requests from dozens of sources, tons of email lists, and tons of spam. It takes hours to sort…