Mail Away!
Mail is my thing, well, email. I love to
communicate. It all started over 10 years ago with my first AOL mail. Direct
mail straight to my friends and family in seconds. I was hooked. I type much
faster than I write, so it was so much easier to send AOL mail than handwritten
letters. Copies weren't so obvious, either. If I wanted to send the same news to
several people, I could copy everyone. For more secure email, I could use a BCC
or Blind Carbon Copy. That hides everyone's email address making it more
private.
I tend to travel a bit. My family likes to hear from me when I do. When I'm
gone, my voice mail service sometimes gets full before I can listen and reply to
all those voice mails. But email is never too full. Anyone and everyone can
leave me a message whenever they like. Oh, and they don't have to worry about
the phone ringing and waking me up, either!
I used AOL mail for almost 10 years. By then I had my own web site, my own web
hosting, and eventually, my own blog. I decided I could let go of the AOL mail
in favor of using the one provided by my web host, and save a little money. Now
my secure email downloads directly to Microsoft Outlook. I like that. Being the
organized sort, I have folders for various things like school, business,
friends, family and for my special interests like astrology and travel.
This year I took a trip out of the US for the first time in my life. I didn't
know what kind of internet connection I would have. I put my voice mail service
on vacation status, and signed up for Gmail. That's Google mail. Google mail is
okay. I like that they have so much space available to use. However, I am not a
fan of their "search don't sort" motto. Me, I'd rather file things in a proper
folder where I can find all related items. Maybe that makes me old fashioned. I
don't know. Maybe in 10 years we can see if their ideas caught on.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to send email to people who subscribe to my
blog. I'm not sure it can be done from where I am right now. I tried FeedBlitz,
but the html code didn't cause a subscription box to print on Wordpress where my
blog is hosted. Phooey. I don't particularly want to be on MySpace or Blogger.
Too much advertising there. I kind of like Tribe net, but again, it isn't quite
as clean and uncluttered as WordPress is. Hopefully, I will get some advice and
find out how to get email subscriptions to my blog going. For now, I just blind
copy everyone and tell them there is a blog to go read. But I'm sure some people
are tired of hearing from me that way.
Until I get that figured out, I continue to mail away!
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Link: Letters to the World
We all link to the world somehow. Even when
there was no internet, no phone, no mail, we linked to each other directly,
person to person. I know that we may lose tone of voice and body language when
the internet is our link. But with Skype and other services that connect us with
voice and visuals, we are more connected than we have ever been to people
completely across the world from us. We can write our letters to the world and
get replies in seconds.
I look forward to the day when all internet web hosting services include a way
to link us with voice and visuals as part of the website package design. The
technology is there. Every day things get easier and cheaper. Things that used
to cost thousands and thousands of dollars are down to much more affordable
prices. What next?
When I was a child, the cartoon, "The Jetsons," and science fiction like "Star
Trek" were pointing the way to the future. I'll bet Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
were watching those and wishing it were real. What a vision! I wonder what's in
today's cartoons and TV shows that little boys and girls are going to bring to
form in the next generation or so, don't you? Things we cannot even imagine,
probably. I know my grandmother was very impressed with computers. And she was
not afraid to try it herself!
Internet web hosting used to be something only big business could do. Website
design was certainly for business. But now, with blog sites and inexpensive
hosting, almost anyone whose socioeconomic status is such that they own a car
and have a telephone, can also have their own internet web site. I recently met
a family from New Zealand that had taken a year off to travel the world with
their children. Isn't that amazing? These 3 kids are getting the education of a
lifetime! Mom is keeping a travelogue on her web site, and each of the children
was contributing content on something that interested them. How's that for an
education?
These links, in person and virtual, may provide one of the avenues though which
we connect with each other enough to see that we aren't so different after all.
Maybe some day we can see that a child in Africa and a child in the United
States and a child in Iran, are all just children growing up on the same planet
as one. Maybe some day we will see peace and look back to notice that internet
links were one of the tools that got us here.
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