Monday, September 5, 2005

Know When to Turn the Cell Phone Off

by alec on September 5, 2005

Except under extraordinary circumstances, there is no reason to either answer a cell phone during a meeting or, worse, take the call and have a conversation while the meeting is still going on. So says Chuck Martin, writing in the Portsmouth Herald.

A while ago I set up a Google Alert for new stories on the topics of Cell Phone Interruptions, and Cell Phone Etiquette. There are two or three stories per day like the one I quoted above.

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Sugar and Spice

by alec on September 5, 2005

jalapeno, originally uploaded by Alec Saunders.

We’ve been harvesting hot peppers in the garden again. Here’s a selection of jalapenos. The red ones have ripened, and are sweet and hot.

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Martin Geddes on Directories

September 5, 2005

Martin has been blue-skying about directories. He’d like to see: Opt-in, and editable. Got a new photo, updated address information, or a new phone number? Just go edit it. Opaque telephony. Anonymous out-bound calls, if that’s what you want, on-demand. Isn’t this otherwise known as caller-id block? A telemarketer line. Want to call me? It will [...]

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Hugh MacLeod: Have a Nice Death Dinosaur

September 5, 2005

Ever since Rick Segal pointed out Gaping Void, I’ve been reading Hugh MacLeod’s funny, and often pointed cartoons, daily. Drawn on the back of a business card, they have a kind of punk ethos about them, which appeals to me. Imagine his latest — "Have a Nice Death Dinosaur" — as a tune by the Sex Pistols [...]

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Google Talk Business Model

September 5, 2005

There has been an ongoing dialog (see Om Malik’s Guessing Google’s VoIP Plan, for instance) in the blogosphere on Google Talk’s business model (and Microsoft’s for their new Teleo acquisition). The current favorite theory is that it will be a pay-per-call system attached to search. Click-to-call enabled advertisements — a replacement for the yellow pages. Aswath Rao points out [...]

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NewStep Networks and The Mobile Snatchers

September 5, 2005

Time Europe’s piece The Mobile Snatchers (picked up by Andy Abramson over on VoIP Watch) is about the coming convergence of WiFi and mobile networks. Time writes: Handset vendors are starting to build Internet technologies into their phones that permit users to bypass mobile networks. The same wi-fi chips that have worked their way into [...]

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