Day archives: April 23rd, 2005

Help me? No, drop dead

From TechRepublic: If you’ve put in a Web site inquiry, consultant Terry Golesworthy explains why you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for a response. Why don’t more corporations respond to online inquiries? That’s one of the questions that continue to puzzle me as I analyze Web sites. Given the efforts marketing departments make to collect …

Pope Benedict XVI gets e-mail address

From USA Today: Got a prayer or a problem for the new pope? Now you can e-mail him. Showing that Pope Benedict XVI intends to follow in the footsteps of John Paul II’s multimedia ministry, the Vatican on Thursday modified its Web site so that users who click on an icon on the home page …

Emails more damaging than cannabis

From VNUnet: Researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry have found that the constant distractions of email and texting are more harmful to performance than cannabis. Those distracted by incoming email, phone calls and text messages saw a 10-point fall in their IQ, more than twice that found in studies of the impact …

Picking the Pope’s Domain Name

From WiredWired: If the newly elected pope wants his own website, he’ll have to talk to Rogers Cadenhead first. The Jacksonville, Florida-based writer purchased the rights to BenedictXVI.comBenedictXVI.com on April 1 — more than two-and-a-half weeks before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger announced that he would assume the papacy under the name of Benedict XVI. In an …

Superman on the Web

From Entertainment Weekly: It’s been 22 years since Superman first flew onto the big screen, but he’s as popular as ever online, where fans have collected enough stories and photos about the ”Super” flicks to fill a Sunday edition of the Daily Planet. At Superman Cinema, scene-by-scene analyses of all four film installments plus ”Supergirl” …