What is IRC?

May 17, 2007 | No Comments

Click To Play http://live.pirillo.com/ – What is IRC? Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around for about as long as the Internet itself, and there are a plethora of clients you can use. mIRC, a Windows IRC client, describes IRC as: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is one of the most popular and most interactive services [...]

Dogs Love IRC

May 9, 2007 | 2 Comments

Wicket and Pixie get there patience tested by two bored married people. Being forced to sit in front of a red-hot plasma television set while being teased with doggie treats and being lambasted by the chatters on IRC is no way for a dog to live. Still, Wicket and Pixie do their best! Check it [...]

Creating Community Communication Silos

Apr 24, 2007 | 16 Comments

Every day, I seem to receive at least one email or invitation to a new “social network” of sorts – and just about every one of these networks are networks unto themselves. That is to say: they’re community silos, not community expanders. This is frustrating – and I don’t see the trend changing anytime soon. [...]

Monday Night Live

Apr 17, 2007 | 7 Comments

Last night, on our way home from dinner, I asked Ponzi if she’d come on cam to say hi to everybody who was tuned in. I told her there were probably 100 people in there and she said there probably wasn’t. We quickly discovered the chat room count sitting at 79, so she dismissed me [...]