Voicechat BETHLEHEM MAYOR TO PARTICIPATE IN ONLINE CLINTON TOWN MEETING
* DON CUNNINGHAM IS ONE OF FIVE RISING DEMOCRATS WHO WILL FIELD QUESTIONS.
President Clinton's virtual trip down the information highway Monday night will have a Bethlehem exit.Mayor Don Cunningham will be one of five New Democrat "rising stars" participating in an online town meeting with Clinton and Democratic Leadership Council founder and President Al From. Also participating in the public Internet chat will be New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, San Jose, Calif., Mayor Ron...
SPREAD THE WORD ON EXCITE VOICE CHAT
www.excite.com or voicechat.excite.com It used to be when you sat down to have a nice chat with someone, it implied having a pleasant face-to-face conversation. Today's high-tech definition of having a nice chat usually means firing up the computer, going online and entering a chat room.Because chat rooms rely on text, most of the social cues that come from vocal inflections and facial expressions are lost.Now the folks at Excite (www.excite.com) have given the chat...
Voicechat LOVE AT FIRST SITE,
INTERNET ROMANCE LEADS TO NEW LOWCOUNTRY BUSINESS.
Sometime in late October, David Golding logged on to an Internet chat room from his home in Birmingham, England. At the same time, half a world away, Bluffton's Martha Hartzog clicked onto the same site.They had never met before. Golding had only been to the chat room once before; for Hartzog, it was her first time. Both just planned to hop online for awhile, talk to a few other people living the same minutes in the same global Internet community, and sign off.No...
Voicechat Voice chat rooms gather steam, and you can still type messages
At first, it seemed like a typical chat room. A list of people with names like Lizardog and Lisarae appeared on the computer screen. Curious visitors came and went. Someone had typed a few words of hello. Then Lizardog spoke up -- literally."It's real quiet in here," he said, his low gravelly voice coming through the computer speakers.His words broke the ice. Soon a man with a British accent chimed in, followed by the hesitant questions of a...