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Old 10-24-2009, 04:08 PM   #1
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I've thought about a chatroom here. There's not a ton of members so it wouldn't get used hardly at all but if there were an event announced- like "Chat on Wednesday Night 9pm. I think the regulars would show up. Just a thought. Not sure on the logistics of it as far as the internet geekeology and potential costs but it might not be a bad idea.

It'd be interesting to read some real time banter w/o the benefits of time to censor yourself. Once a week or once or whatever works COULD be interesting.
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Old 10-24-2009, 05:20 PM   #2
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use IRC
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Old 10-24-2009, 07:57 PM   #3
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is IRC still even around anymore?
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Old 10-24-2009, 08:27 PM   #4
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yes, lots of hackers us it for ad hoc chatrooms to discuss what to do.
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Old 10-24-2009, 09:06 PM   #5
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even the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, at Harvard Law School, still uses IRC.
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Old 10-24-2009, 10:02 PM   #6
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use IRC
Twitter has become the new IRC for my friends.
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Old 10-24-2009, 11:08 PM   #7
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Both sound good to me.
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Old 10-25-2009, 01:55 PM   #8
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Twitter has become the new IRC for my friends.
Yeah I was going to say (in response to Ron) that the Berkman Center people who use IRC are mostly an older crowd. The younger fellows there are Twitter fanatics.
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Old 10-27-2009, 10:55 PM   #9
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This would be pretty cool. I don't know anything about IRC, but Twitter isn't really a chat room. So if they're similar...yeah.

Suffolk is right though. Give particular dates, and give a topic, and just go at it. Figure a half-hour to an hour, depending on how active everyone is.
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Old 10-28-2009, 12:26 AM   #10
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I'll look into adding some kind of simple chat or something. I'm constantly hearing about Twitter, but, for the life of me, I just dont get it.
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