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May 27, 2004
"How to make friends by telephone"
Posted by Clay Shirky
Amazing mid-last-century document explaining
how to use the telephone. Some of it is technical -- transferring calls, holding the receiver, but a lot of it is, well, tele-quette, like why the receiving party should answer first, and why the calling party should end the call. Very TCP-ish, in a social way...
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1. Seth Finkelstein on May 27, 2004 10:18 PM writes...
"Over the telephone, however, your voice and your voice alone -- is you."
Very timeless, and quite applicable to the Net.
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