Hot on the heels of my previous post about email jokes causing information pollution, I found a new manifesto on the very topic of bad email etiquette published here. Some of this could certainly apply to SMS or text messages as well.
It’s always a useful task to put some perspective onto the rate of technological change over the last decade or two. I have talked about Generation Y and the millenials in an earlier post, with the video of the toddler using an iPad with ease, but being dumbfounded by a magazine, illustrating perfectly how the children…
I took a walk tonight just to clear my head. Trying to write 10,000 words for an assignment is no mean task. Well, it was around 8 pm and the sky in Johannesburg was clear. I tried to identify Orion’s Belt as I have been doing in recent months whenever there is a clear sky….
When the line at Starbucks is long, when class gets dull, when conversations get personal, when loneliness strikes, we grab the phone like an Old West quick draw. Though our generation is marked by social media, experts are anxious of its effects on relationships, specifically our capacity for communication. “We’re setting ourselves up for trouble,”…
Dan Sullivan, an expert on Entrepreneurship advocates that people in the 21 Century will be forced to become multidimensional people. This essentially means that to be successfully people have to continue growing. I’ve just realized that even in relationships we must continue to grow or else it will end, one way or another; from our…
A reminder to the blogging community to upgrade to WordPress 2.6, which was released 3 days ago. Today I upgraded 26 WordPress-based websites or rather blogs that I am hosting at Hostgator. It has been years since I bothered hosting websites inside South Africa. And the Fantastico script manager allows you to seamlessly install open…
Today, I read a post on the New York Times website about a revolution in the availability of new web addresses, or what is called domain names in the Internet industry. This shift in the policies from ICANN is going to open up a hornet’s nest if you are trying to decide which type of…