What is this, 1997?
Fisted by JFinger under piss and moan, tech on Tue, May 13, 2008
[9] Comments
…just got in, and in my inbox this morning was this email from ITWorld.
Brilliant, eh? Wow – I never thought about that before!
Web Conferencing. What a fricking concept.
Oh, wait a minute, let’s look at the calendar, yep it’s 2008.
Whose idea was this at IT World? Did they just warp off some kind of Benjamin Linus trip?
Polar Bears, anyone?!?
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May 13th, 2008 at 9:04 am
May 13th, 2008 at 9:19 am
There’s been a definite lag for many people and institutions in terms of getting with “the times” and taking advantage of new technologies. I’ve come up against this working with interactive web-calendars: a lot of people/orgs just can’t their head around the idea of a web-cal, and the event calendars of a lot of orgs still comprise nothing more than a list, like you’d post on a bulletin board:
For example, here is the calendar of KGMI.com, without a doubt the most listened to local station here in Whatcom County:
http://kgmi.com/news.asp?page=events
Stone age.
Now, compare it to the Boeing Museum of Flight calendar, an institution that will naturally be less resisting of new technologies:
http://www.museumofflight.org/Display.asp?Page=NewsCalendar
This is just one example, but others abound – the subject you raise here being prominent among them.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Un-fucking-believable. Is this a joke?
May 13th, 2008 at 10:51 am
You mean you don’t have to use carbon paper? Dammit. I’m talking to my boss TODAY.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Oh, I made that up. Spoof and all, don’t you know.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Oh, I made that up. Spoof and all, don’t you know.
Well, I couldn’t be quite sure:
1.)They used to make me turn the crank and churn out dittos in middle school, as a punishment, so it’s within my direct, personal, historical experience.
2.) So many weird ideas come out of the business sector that I could envision it as some sort of corporate backlash against those reams of inter-office emails that never get read or answered. Maybe that’s improved since I last worked in an office (1999); I just know it was like pulling fucking teeth to get somebody to pick up the ball via an e-missive, in two major companies I worked for. You sent the email, and waited, and waited, and finally you went and tracked them down physically, and they hadn’t even read it three days after it arrived.
3.) It’s a weird fucking society, and getting weirder by the day.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I love the smell of a fresh mimeograph, and you just can’t get that anymore. Reduced to sniffing toner cartridges and getting only 1/2 the results.
Sigh.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Yeah, nothing like breaking up a toner cartridge and breaking out the razor and mirror. Good times, good times…like Miami Vice-style, but with black powder.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Just make sure you wipe the black smears off your nose, or people will think you’ve been out sniffing new tires. How embarrassing!