Gmail has added a new downloadable function "email goggles." This new function is to help people not send drunk emails. So, between the hours of, I believe, 11pm Friday to 4am Sunday, if you have this function enabled, you will be given a short math quiz before your email will be sent. If you fail the quiz, the email will be saved in your drafts folder, and gmail tells you ""Water and bed for you."
And, you only have a short amount of time, 60 seconds, to complete the 5 question math quiz. What a sly way to bring math into the email (writing) world. What do we value more? 12 secs to answer a math question, or the lessons learned from sending a drunk email? How does this program influence our email literacy? The second link below has some interesting quotes that seem to connect to some of our class discussion - a technology development that solves all drunk communication problems: "But even if Google deems you too inebriated to correspond with your boss or your ex, what about all the other ways to communicate something stupid?" Or "But there's still no technological catch-all solution for drunk dialing and texting. And no one's tackled some of the other foolhardy activities associated with a night out, like consuming a gross burrito at 3 a.m." It may not be the rape wagon, but........
Huffington Post Article
Chicago Tribune
So interesting!
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A tangent to a tangent:
So, I watched you craft this post, and could easily now make hyperlinks on your MAC...however...after playing around for 45 minutes, I could not figure out for the life of me how to make hyperlinks using FireFox on my windows-based piece of rubbish. Mind showing me? Since unlike gmail, Firefox allows me my false sense of autonomy and does make moral decisions for me...alas...
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Yes Elliot, I can show you how to hyperlink within blog posts (and even on a PC.. though macs are cooler just so you know). :-)m
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