I’m not sure it’s confined to any one culture because I see it all over the world, and I still don’t understand it. The Escalator Shuffle is when people in malls or wherever race to be ahead of others on escalators, but then stand still as soon as soon they’re on it, usually two abreast… Read More »
An interesting development, according to Netimperative – The UK PR industry gets online trade body: Public Relations Online (PRO), a new UK forum designed to promote the role of the Internet in the PR industry, has launched this week. The forum aims to educate the PR industry about the technologies and techniques needed to respond… Read More »
How well does Voice over Internet work for folks who rely on dial-up? I’ve not had much luck with Skype — it comes across as crackly, jerky and fenerky (I made up the last word.) A company called NetZero is now offering a VoIP service it says works well for dial-up users: “We believe consumers should… Read More »
I really hope this will happen soon. Jimmy’s been talking about it for a while, but while I can see the technical problems, I think it’s just too important not to press ahead with: Publishing-industry.net reports that Wikipedia May Soon Be Available In Print: Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia written and edited by Internet users,… Read More »
Plaxo is beginning to irritate people again. Now it’s David Weinberger, who is back to hating Plaxo: Today I hate it again. I got an update notice from someone and noticed that my own info was out of date. So I took the seemingly innocuous step of updating my phone number. Lo and behold, Plaxo… Read More »