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Voicemail is depressed, no one listens anymore

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 to the technology subset

I still find voicemail useful but only in short message format, that is "this is my name, this my number, give me a call." I can't abide the callers though who are determined to cram what amounts to their life story into a voicemail message. Is that why people are giving up on it, in favour of text messages or e-mails instead? In today's busy, busy world of instant ... Read full entry

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A new personality indicator: email addresses

Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 28 April, 2008 to the comment subset

Researchers from the department of Psychology at the University of Leipzig, in Germany, claim to have found a correlation between a person's email address and their personality. Just as eyes are said to be the windows of the soul, e-mail addresses could be the electronic equivalent in the online environment. E-mail addresses represent the thinnest slice of information that people receive from one another. Using 599 e-mail addresses of young ... Read full entry

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