A long time ago, pre-dotcom bubble burst (*sniff*) I won an award during an agency summer party.
It was an odd award. It made me appear geeky (geekier?) than I possibly would have wanted to in front of an all agency audience, not just a digital audience, at a time when TV, Radio and Print types thought the internet was a passing fad that would never take off (not much has changed! *kidding*)
It was “The Bluetooth Award for The Excessive Use of Technology” and I won it for my ability to keep my then-boss aware of my late arrival in to work by emailing her from the train - a feat I achieved through a combination of a Palm V and Nokia “Matrix Phone” (you know, the combat green one with the WAP-wheel and “big” screen) handset linked up via infra-red.
I had to stand up, in front of a whole agency, and basically admit to being a complete geek. I am sure most of the people there had no idea what it was even for and just thought something along the lines of “those crazy digital guys” or words to that effect. Bluetooth? Crazyness.
Still, I got a bottle of champagne out of it (and the good stuff too! not like we get nowadays!)
Many years on, and the person who created that award for me, bless her, had a conversation with me today on IM where she said I should get another one award.
Why? Well, I happened to mention to her that if she wanted to IM me at almost any time, she could get Google Talk, as I now had it on my blackberry, which, because of the wonder that is unlimited data, I leave on all the time.
Doesn’t strike me as such a geeky thing to do any more, but there we go.
What’s the difference betwen having a blackberry and having a blackberry with 24/7 IM. The devices give you 24/7 email - which is what I won the award for in the first instance. What’s the big difference between that and IM?
Not a lot as far as I can tell.
Howard
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