Ok. I've got to be fair. I've been feeling a bit guilty by my lack of posts for this past week here at The Digital Tavern. Nonetheless, I'm going to try to make up for some lost ground. So read on.
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Seems Doc is looking for a new phone system. He's looking at the Panasonic KX-TG4000B. I've been using this system for about a year. First, it doesn't interfere with my Airport Base Stations (I have two WiFi access points to allow roaming in both my separate office and my home). I'm using both the Airport Extreme (802.11g) and the original Airport (802.11b). Overall I'm happy with the system. It offers up to 4 lines and 8 handsets. Even better, each handset gets its own extension and private voicemail box. There's a general mailbox, too. I've got it setup with the automated attendant feature for my business, while I can set my home lines free of the automated attendant. This flexibility was the selling point for me. The automated attendant picks up the phone and instructs callers (in your own voice and personalized greeting) the ability to dial an extension. The only annoying thing about the automated attendant is that it requires the caller to enter the pound sign (#) after entering the appropriate extension number. While simply a pet peeve, until callers are used to this requirement, they may hang and hang and hang waiting for the phone to connect to the extension. Overall for the price you can't find a better multi-line phone system with immense flexibility for home or a small business.
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Tomorrow morning I'm heading out of town. Again. So much of this country and this world to see. So I'm heading to Jackson tomorrow morning. While there, I'll embark on a couple day or two-day trips on a dual-sport motorcycle and tour the fantastic mountains, scenery and roads of Montana. Big Sky country. I'll endeavor to check in. Share with you both thoughts and photography. Later in the month, I'll do a similar pilgrimage to Southern Utah and camp in Bryce and Zion National Parks. During that trip I may find it difficult to blog. But my heart will be into it and my experience shared with you on my return. If you've been to any of these destinations, take a moment and share your experience, good or bad, with the other readers of The Digital Tavern my posting a comment here or on your blog. Be sure to trackback. Give readers of the Tavern a place to go while I gather my thoughts, words and posts for future Digital Tavern musings.
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It's funny. Blogging as we all know is going mainstream. Some of you are probably a bit hurt, pissed and otherwise uncomfortable with the newfound fame "blogging" is experiencing. But as I've noted several times before, blogging is simply the promise of the internet -- the same internet we all bought into in the mid-90's -- finally realized. Call it content management. Call it ongoing updates to sites. Or call it "community". All of these were dreams of site owners, operators and designers in the mid to late 90's. But without a domain, budget or technical acumen you were out of luck. Company or individual. Then came the blogging tools. And here we are.
But like Kleenex or Xerox, blogging and blog tools have become saturated. As parity "products" there is barely any differentiation between tools, platforms and for the most part, even blogs. This represents both a huge problem and a magnificent opportunity. But we'll get more into that later.
To keep this post short and sweet, I point you to this Associated Press article that discusses, for the most part, what appears to be an article drafted after a solid pitch by a PR person for LiveJournal.
In order to differentiate itself from the crowded segment of blogging tools or software, LiveJournal is positioning itself as something different. Though it's really simply positioning and messaging. And it might just work. That's the beauty of strategic and well thought out marketing.
LiveJournal is not calling itself a "blogging" tool. Rather it's moving away from the crowd by calling itself a tool for online journals -- or diaries. The press is perfect for LiveJournal. The messaging and differentiation appears in the fourth paragraph of the article.
[...] unlike blogs, which are dated musings on certain subjects and often carry links to similar blogs, online journals are designed to be more like a coffeehouse, where a community regularly gathers, building friendships and connections as they share personal details [...]
In reality, a blog is journal is a diary is a website. The rest is all positioning and messaging -- good marketing. Sorry if I burst any balloons. But let's get real here.
Look for more segmentation as the "blogging world" or blogosphere gets even more crowded as more and more companies and enterprising individuals look to cash in on the craze. Ahhhh. Another boom. What a bang.
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For those of you who have subscribed to the Digital Tavern via the service I used, Bloglet, you probably haven't received a Digital Tavern update notification since early August. And to be sure, I haven't been that lax in posting items of interest.
It appears that Bloglet has had a serious malfunction. Several e-mails to its founder, Monsur, have gone unanswered. The result is a subscription service that's not working. So be sure to check in regularly. I will be posting several times a week. And I promise. It's going to get even more interesting. Truly.
If anyone knows what's going on with Bloglet please leave me a comment or drop me an email here. And like Hossein Derakhshan , I'd like to find an alternative solution so that my several hundred (a fraction of Hossein's) subscribers can again subscribe and receive ongoing updates. It's unfortunate that the database of subscribers is lost somewhere with Monsur. So if you're a subscriber or want to be, send me an email here so I can get you on the new system when I find one.
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So if you care about California politics and the crazy recall election, then I urge you to send a note to a candidate that's doing well in the polls and until I read this, he has refused to participate in a debate. Frankly, I don't think Schwarzenegger should be governor of California. Let's leave him to the movies, his wife to the idiot box and the California people with a better choice.
I urge you to send Arnie a message by signing a petition to urge him to debate Peter Ueberroth [~] who frankly in my opinion is the best candidate in the a crowded field of inexperienced wannabees. You can urge Arnie to debate by going here.
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A couple years ago while flying to Boise, Idaho an airline attendant took interest in me as I started working on the Palm portion of my Kyocera SmartPhone. Within moments she was by my seat with her SmartPhone and exchanging a number of free or shareware Palm OS applications. After several minutes of fun dialog and communicative comaraderie
or shared ownership of such a marvel of a technological device she blushed as she decided, after a long pause, to send me one more program. As I stared at my screen I watched the transfer of what I read was "The Palma Sutra." She giggled and said this was her favorite. A passenger buzzed an attendant call button and she whisked away from my seat. So I eagerly started punching my stylus on my Palm device to view this new "Palma Sutra" application. Wow. I leaned over the aisle seat and glanced down the aisle at the attendant as she gleefully and beautifully bounced to the rear of the plane. I was married at the time, so my thoughts and mind were simply gloating in the flattery. Or, at least what I certainly felt was flattery. And I'm sticking with it.
So I guess the Palma Sutra or Palm OS never hit Brazil. But they've got something better. If you're not sure how to spice up your love life or add a bit of zest to your lovemaking, all you need to do is make a quick phone call. And the next thing you know, your love will be expressing ecstasy and orgasm.
[...] Brazilian telephone company is offering a helping hand to Latin lovers who are lacking inspiration with animations of sexual positions based on the Kama Sutra flashed directly to their mobile phones [...]
And all along I had thought those Brazilian Latin lovers were just physically sensual dynamos of love and sex. There goes that fantasy. Anyway, check out the article here. And have fun. And then tell me if something like this would ever come from Verizon, Cingular or AT&T.
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