Intro
- "The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it." ~Edward R. Murrow
- see also: Social Networking, Media: Video
communication
Sentiment-sensing software could aid in weeding hostile online comments
Channeling Communication Velocity
memes: hoaxes, urban legend: [urban legends(Snopes); urban legends(About)]
At Snopes.com, Rumors Are Held Up to the Light
Online forums are filled with spam, irrational anger and hate, and plain-old mean-spiritedness -- have the terminally angry taken over?
Manage Web anger: tools for online communities to discourage hateful, repugnant, racist, insulting speech
Record numbers of Finns resign (online) from church after gay rights panel discussion on TV
LH: Staying Productive with Multiple Devices and Methods of Communication
- "EMAIL - when it absolutely positively has to get lost at the speed of light." ~Anonymous
- "President Bush said for security reasons, he's sworn off all e-mail communication. He will not be using email at the White House at all. Is that a good idea? I mean, it's not like that speaking thing was working out so good." ~Jay Leno
- "The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers." ~Jamais Cascio
- "Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from email... Amen" ~Anonymous
- "I get mail, therefore I am." ~Scott Adams
E-mail, instant messaging (IM) (AIM)
troll [HSW]; videos: email intro, 1:17; AIM, 1:56; HSW: @, spam, quiz (10)
You’ve got mail: What your email domain says about you (Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, ...)
Reply All: The Button Everyone Loves to Hate
The Decline of Web-Based E-Mail (mobile; youth)
The Death of BCC? (blind cc:)
Hotmail launches accounts you can throw away (without anyone knowing your primary email address)
E-Mail Gets an Instant Makeover
E-Mail’s Big Demographic Split
Facebook Offers New Messaging Tool
Why You'll Give Up Gmail for Facebook Mail
Why You Shouldn't Switch Your Email to Facebook
The Decline and Fall of E-Mail
Keeping an email address secret won't hide it from spambots
Should E-Mail and Letters Have Equal Legal Protection?
Burning Question: Why Do Emails Contain Legal Warnings?
Email Still Tops Facebook for Keeping in Touch (except 18-24 yr olds)
viral email; 50 Viral Images The Web Shared In 2010
E-mail infections decline as exploits propagated via social media increase
Aol Mail Goes Down. No One Notices.
The Post Office strives to survive
Are Greeting Cards a Thing of the Past?
The 25 Greatest Internet Memes of 2010
LH: Five Best Invitation Services
LH: How to Verify if an Email Address Is Real or Fake
Email Overload Fix: 3 Sentence Emails
LH: Assign Email a 15-Minute Minimum to Avoid Unnecessary Checking
LH: The Best Sites, Numbers, and Forms for Banishing Junk Mail
Phone
telephone, VoIP [HSW] (Skype, Vonage, Fring) HSW: Skype vs. Vonage
Free messaging apps threaten wireless carriers' cash cow (texting via data)
Post-mortem on the Skype outage
How the Cloud Can Enable Shared Phones For Millions
Free Alternatives to the Departing GOOG-411
Skype 5.0 For Windows Debuts With Facebook Integration, Call Recovery And More
What Facebook and Skype Integration Would Mean For You
GOOG-411 Winds Down, Bing-411 Parties On
Farewell, GOOG-411
Ooma Unleashes “HD Telephone Calls” With PureVoice Technology
A Phonebook for the 21st Century
Business cards thrive in a digital age
Phone Numbers Are Dead, They Just Don’t Know It Yet
Google Shakes It Up Again With Free Phone Calls
Vonage App Calls Facebook Friends Free
Fring reveals FringOut for cheap VoIP calls, challenges Skype head-on
Facebook Phone: All You Need To Know + New Details
Are 'Sext' Messages a Teenage Felony or Folly?
Back When The Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones
Windows Phone 7 Is the Real Facebook Phone
In Five Years, Connections Will Be To Each Other, Not The Web; We’ll Be Dial Tones
HSW: Will the landline phone become obsolete?
HSW: How WiFi Phones Work
Conferencing, Chat
web conferencing [HSW: intro, security, how to host, quiz (20)]
Dealing with Internet Trolls - the Cognitive Therapy Approach
Skype to expand online meetings via GoToMeeting
Make group video calls with up to 10 people with the new beta version of Skype
Cisco Rolls Out Umi Home Videoconferencing System
Apple promptly fixes Facetime for Mac beta security flaw
FaceTime and the Need for Mobile Video Chat Etiquette
videochat (Chatroulette), cybersex
Researchers develop method to identify flashers on Chatroulette
Chatroulette Gives Rise to a Genre
Facelette: It’s FaceTime Meets Chatroul… You Know The Drill
Sex industry embraces FaceTime, world feigns surprise
HSW: How Web Seminars Work
HSW: How Online Presentations Work
HSW: How Online Surveys Work