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Monday, November 29, 2004
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I feel so old. . .
Email Is So Last Millennium. Textually is pointing out that a new study in South Korea shows that kids there are staying away from email, saying that it's mainly for old people.
They only use email when they want to communicate with their "elders."
When communicating with friends, they'd much rather use SMS, instant
messaging or the web. . . [ Techdirt]
But note one more difference between SMS/IM and email: unless you
explicitly choose to save your IM sessions, there's no record. With
email, you can look back at prior conversations and refer to events or
agreements. The transient nature of SMS and IM preclude that option: it
becomes "he said/she said." Which just might be the point for young
people.
3:12:19 PM 
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Jenny enjoys a good spleen-venting now and then, and this one's about Macs:
gapingvoid: why i prefer windows to macintosh
Apparently, Hugh MacLeod likes Windows
because it isn't Macintosh. Just fine with me because his list made me
smile on a day when I generally prefer not to. [the creative tech writer]
Apparently, Mr. MacLeod takes issue with the Cult of Mac more than
any functional issues. OTOH, after more than a year using a Mac, I can
say that the more I use the Mac the more I like it, and the more I use
Windows the more I hate it. At this point they only thing keeping me on
Windows (aside from a distaste for spending money on computer hardware
when I don't have to) is FrameMaker. Which Adobe is probably going to
end-of-life on Windows soon anyway, folding its functionality into
another product, which may then be available for Mac. End of problem.
One of my observations about Mac vs. Windows: my wife uses a computer,
for email, word-processing, and shopping online. when she had a Windows
box I had to fix something every other day. Now that she's on an eMac I
don't have to fix things nearly as often. Which makes me happier than
any spleen-venting.
2:06:54 PM
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