I just finished “Team Of Rivals” by Doris Kerns Goodwin and although it was the abridged version from Audible and it was fantastic. As I listened to it I was often reminded of times growing up listening to the stories being told on radio. I remember the war reports in the first half of the 40’s and then “Boston Blackie”, “The Green Hornet” and “The Shadow”, not to mention “The Lone Ranger” (an early Curious Voyager). While listening to “Team Of Rivals” there was so many times that I did not want to get out of the car when arriving at whatever my destination was – including the driveway. I have to admit that NPR now has a great rival with Audible at Amazon (the “A’s” have it).
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I am finding the “smart phone” thing really interesting. First I would never use a phone for email or messaging of any sort. Now I have a phone with a Qwerty keyboard so that I can send text messages (SMS) to my son, wife or anyone and I have thoughts about how good it could be for having “real” instant messaging. I see some advantages for business to having that “instant” contact to change meeting times, locations or updating information on the run (“We just closed the loan, now move on it.”). With the ability to install Micro Blogging software on your local server for your own internal use this has a great deal of possibilities for instant mobile messaging. There is an interesting report at SCRIBD and the link to the report is at http://www.scribd.com/doc/6221649/Enterprise-Micro-Sharing-Tools. I have to thank Pistachio Consulting for the link.
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