Our intrepid symposium moderator, Scott Kirsner, has a blog.
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
I am very sad to report that the Schwartz Communication Institute has lost a dear friend. Raymond F. von Dran, Dean emeritus of the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University passed away at the young age of 60 earlier this week. Ray was a Symposium regular who was very influential in the evolution of that event as well as of the Schwartz Institute in general. He facilitated this past year and, as expected, brought his characteristic exuberance and insight to the discussion. Please take a look at the moving tribute to Ray on the School of Information Studies website and his obituary in the Syracuse University News.
We here at cac.ophony recently received this curious email from across the pond:
Dear Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute
I am writing to you from Kent, England. It’s the county just below London.
I wanted to inform you that your blog (http://cac.ophony.org/) is infact a Googlewhack!In case you do not know about Googlewhacks, basically it is a game people play with the search engine google. In an attempt to find just one solitary result, they enter two completely random and unrelated words that appear on dictionary.com. My two words were “Jot Semipublicly.”
Following a link to your larger website I stumbled upon this contact.
I thought it appropriate to tell you that you were infact a googlewhack, because if I didn’t, I’d be googlewhacking behind your back.
Hope to hear from you!
Adam
Wow. How cool. A googlewhack here at cac.ophony! What an interesting distinction. There is but one place on the entire world wide web where the words “jot” and “semipublicly” appear on the same page and it is here! Who would have thought? Thanks for letting us know, Adam of Kent!
The official Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute Googlwhack Award goes to our own Kate Moss who authored this googlewhackalicious post.
UPDATE: Here’s Adam’s response to my email letting him know about this post:
Wow.
That was simply my primary response when I saw this page that had been published. I do not recall the last time I was so stereotypically english when reading that there was an official Googlewhack award, exclaiming loudly “Bloody ‘ell!”
This has absolutley made my day, even my month after all these nearby floods and terrible weather. Thank you very much for taking such time and effort.
Thanks Again
Adam
Readers of Cac.ophony might want to check out either this Salon article, or two of the books it recommends. Scott Rosenberg has reviewed a few email etiquette guides as well as manuals for ‘managing’ ones Inbox. He notes:
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home, By David Shipley and Will Schwalbe, [is] a slender, literate volume that is positioned as a Strunk and White for e-mail. Shipley edits the New York Times Op-Ed page, and Schwalbe is editor in chief of Hyperion Books.
Of the ‘manuals’ he mentions, the one whose approach sounded most useful to me was Mark Frauenfelder’s Rule the Web. He describes it as “a miscellany of mostly free services, tools and tips for managing e-mail and blogs and feeds and photos and music and videos” and discloses that he contributed one paragraph (uncompensated). He also said he learned at least six things from the book, which is not bad considering it’s his job.
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