I was curious as to how many earthquakes there are globally a year. This table puts some perspective on what seems like a lot of quakes recently... - Diane Ensey
How do you reach the Spectators when there are no relevant or interested Creators to reach out to, i.e., in a “neglected” market? - chartreuse
Excellent article and a compelling argument for partnerships with companies/industries which aren't traditionally regarded as "internet based". Like insurance companies. One hurdle I see for many Spectators and Inactives is the suspicion that if they provide their personal information (email), something bad will happen. - Diane Ensey
Hmmm i use Google email, reader, docs, Search, Picasa, so no it would be a pain migrating all my stuff to diffrent services. - John Spencer via Alert Thingy
s spam filter for my oldest mail adress and GReader for all my RSS needs - Hannes Müller via twhirl
Not since I use GMail as spam filter for my oldest mail adress and GReader for all my RSS needs. - Hannes Müller via twhirl
@Haim: Very well put. I only really use Gmail, Docs and Search nowadays. Gmail's backed up, most of the important Docs are also on my compy and I can always use somewhere else for search. Now, if only I could figure out exactly where that "somewhere else" is... - Cyvros/fyc
I could live, but I wouldn't be happy. I think the contribution of Google is that of the car and telephone. - Vince DeGeorge
google services just like any other technologies are for more convenience or improving the economic & life. Not having it could just make the life harder then :) - Nikpay
I could live without google as long as I have friendfeed. I find anything I need here anyways :) - Kyle Weller
Of course, as this conversation continues, Google has been very slow for me this morning... and is definitely impacting my day. - Vince DeGeorge
if i go offline for a week on my vacation, then yes i can, it's not so hard. but if i got my laptop and i was able to connect to the internet, then it would be little hard to do, but possible. now we have many other way to connect people or get information without searching. - "31oooooooo5"
No. Mail, documents, reader, and various other things are wrapped up in what I do and future plans. - Lisa Thompson via Alert Thingy
live without greader and gmail ? not a chance - Chris Jones via twhirl
No. Not at the moment no. Internet are to valuable right now. - Svartling
Oh yeah, definitely. I really only use the Google search engine, and have recently been running my searches through Mahalo. Even the stuff I search for is fairly obvious; PHP functions, little tutorials, etc. And Google's magic ability to go straight to the best result has fizzled in the past few years, so they're not massively better than the other search engines now. - Brent Newhall
No, and to be honest search engines that are aimed at being 'semantic' like Mahalo really miss the point: convenient and effortless search. If Google, went away my internet use would decrease 99.9 percent. The remaining .1 would be askjolene.com - jon
Not me. From my blog to my RSS reader, I'm all Google all the time. - Mike Lewis via twhirl
Maybe it's just me, but I dislike being that dependent on a specific piece of tech to get all information. Domain-specific search--like pulling a cookbook off a shelf--returns better results than a one-size-fits-all solution like Google. Especially in the modern days of SEO, where most of my Google results link to linkfarms. - Brent Newhall
Easily, at this point for what I search for I can't tell a difference between google and live. - Chris Patterson via twhirl
without google how would I spell anything correctly? - Anthony Farrior
i could live - in the dark - without search though i don't really care who is serving it as long as it works and is easy/good (i.e. goog for now) - Morgan via twhirl
can we live without oxygen? for about three minutes, so yeah, temporarily - Julian Baldwin
I tried it for a week while my ISP was having troubles. It was nearly impossible for me to get any work done. - Diane Ensey
I probably could...but Google Search is such a habit. Breaking it would be tough. - Chris Rossini
Without Google, I would probably become a constant Yahoo user. Wouldn't be too difficult to switch. - possible248
“Yesterday, I was with someone from a large oil corporation, there are predictions that a barrel of oil will reach $200 soon, it's at 121 now”
May 8 at 5:26 am
I mentioned this to my wife, and she reminded me of her simple policy: "I don't believe big numbers like that when I hear them." :-) - Ray Grieselhuber
Wasn't very long ago people were saying gas could never hit $100. - Diane Ensey
This is cool. I add spam callers to my address book in a group called spam. My cell phone is set up not to ring for anything in the spam group. Saves me a lot of grief. - Diane Ensey
You can't imagine how hard I had to fight to have no phone number at Google. The concept was anathema to them. But, I eventually won out and my life was measurably better for it. Amen, Kevin. - Sacca
I didn't check my Google voicemail for my last four years. I was thinking of listening to it on my last day, but I never got around to it. - Bret Taylor
my boss informed me that my voice message was outdated. it was an out of office msg from february - Ontario Emperor
Nice one, Chris. At Google I changed my voicemail message to "Hi. I don't ever check these messages, so if you need to reach me please call my cell or send me an email." Then I put a piece of electrical tape over the voicemail light. I figure if people don't know or can't get my cell number or my email address then they shouldn't be contacting me at work anyhow. - Kevin Fox
Kevin, I did nearly what you did. I left an outgoing messaging urging people to e-mail me instead. - Adam Lasnik
We actually have a policy at my company not to have any voice mail, so I literally don't have a voice mail box here. Basically, all calls go to the secretary during the day and a main voice mail after hours. Otherwise, you call in for me and I'm here, I get the call. - Chris Reed
I hate phones and voicemail and state so explicitly on my website. I tell clients email is the quickest way to get a response. - Diane Ensey
You can have your voicemail disabled at Google without much hassle. - Gary Burd
I started using simulscribe - now called PhoneTag - for my cell phone a while back and I love it. I get emailed transcriptions in minutes with voice audio attachment. works great. - David Vasileff
What's the quality of their transcriptions? I signed up for Vonage's (confusingly named) "visual voicemail", and their transcriptions were initially great but are now very poor quality. - ⓞnor
Our voicemail has gotten a lot better ever since they were integrated with our e-mail system as .wav file attachments. Now I can screen calls, but still double-click to not miss any messages. - Louis Gray
Heck, I don't even have a phone at my desk and that's the way I like it. - Akiva Moskovitz
ⓞnor: PhoneTag quality has been pretty good, messages may be slightly off but I usually get the gist. it is poor for things like names or long messages with lots of details. I think the PT greeting says this will be transcribed, leave a brief message, speak to be understood, etc.. most of my msgs fit that. I rarely have to listen to audio and you can ask PT for re-trans but I've never done that. - David Vasileff
I just got back into the office yesterday after 3wks away and this reminded me to check my voicemail ... except some wally has nicked my phone! In no hurry to go find it : ) - Patricia Hanrahan
I'm the complete opposite, use the dishwasher for every thing other then big pots and pans. Though i pre wash all the stuff going in the machine, Sort of defeats the purpose. - Mike Fruchter
Don't have and have never had a dishwasher. - Jack Carlson
are you kidding? that seven years i did handwash I consider to be 7 wasted years of my life. EVERYTHING goes in the dishwasher. if it does not survive in there it was not meant for my household. only exception: pans which do not fit in there, but they are easy clean due to teflon - Nicole Simon
I just do this dishes right after using them and pop them into the dishwasher to try. It only takes like 2 minutes (all of our pans are easy to clean teflon). And we usually cook at home...no problems at all. - Benjamin Golub
My dishwasher holds only dirty dishes - I run it and immediately empty it. The only way I can keep my kitchen clean! - Diane Ensey
I also use my dishwasher as a drying rack. Sometimes i save big jobs for it only because the seals need to be lubricated to keep from drying and cracking. Note the ingredients of dishwasher detergent: it includes silicone lubricant. - John Lam
dish washer have been proven to be the most economic and green way of washing dishes and alike. ;) - Nicole Simon
I almost never use a dishwasher. Taiwanese thing. - Mitchell Tsai
I don't use mine either... only 2 of us...seems like a big waste of energy to use it for so few dishes. - Susan Beebe
"Extremely friendly. When more than 1 car is waiting they will come out and get your order ahead of time. Lattes are HOT (a good thing). They love dogs and always have doggy biscuits." - Diane Ensey
"Manicure only. Scruffy place. They used the nail grinder around my cuticles which left a ridge as my nails grew out. Lacquer applied really poorly. I complained to no avail." - Diane Ensey
"They were able to get me right in. Very clean, but the owner's 4 year old son was running around yelling and playing the whole time. I did a manicure and spa pedicure. Don't expect much for the…" - Diane Ensey
