- Back Channel: noun
- a secondary or covert route for the passage of information : the agency offered a reliable backchannel to Washington.
Back channels have probably been around for ages. You know, Thrag and Hnagaf were meeting out back, behind the boulder, for a quick hit of wacky weed. They probably made plans on how to get Felkaa and Blenka back to their cave for some thigh rubbing. What Thrag and Hnagaf needed were cell phones and SMS.
Back Channel: Experience.
Some people who have experienced the phenomenon cite a speech given last year at a computer industry conference by Joe Nacchio, former chief executive of the telecommunications company Qwest. As he gave his presentation, two bloggers — Dan Gillmor, a columnist for The San Jose Mercury News, and Doc Searls, senior editor for The Linux Journal — were posting notes about him to their Weblogs, which were simultaneously being read by many people in the audience.
Both included a link forwarded by a reader in Florida to a stock filing report indicating that Mr. Nacchio had recently made millions of dollars from selling his company’s stock, although he complained in his speech about the tough economy. ”No sympathy here,” Mr. Gillmor wrote.
”When Dan blogged that, the tenor of the room changed,” Mr. Doctorow said. Mr. Nacchio, he said, ‘’stopped getting softball questions and he started getting hardball questions.
- Time-Shifting: verb
- [ intrans. ] move from one period in time to another.
Time-shifting comes in two flavors:
- Now-Later: Think TiVo.
- Later-Now: Classroom lectures and conferences with WiFi and laptops open and the audience IMing and Wikiing away about the lecture at hand.
- Bonding: verb [ intrans. ]
- figurative establish a relationship with someone based on shared feelings, interests, or experiences.
Time-shifting & Bonding: While You Were Sleeping.
Hikaru usually sleeps the morning away while I net. Sometimes I run across sites or find pics in iPhoto I think she would like, so I send them to her. After I have run off to work, she usually checks her mail and either calls me or mails me back. Sometimes she doesn’t say anything at all.
Back-channel: Ice Cream!
To: Hikaru. From: D.L.A. Subject: ICE CREAM! Body: I want ice cream? You want some? -------------------------------- To: D.L.A. From: Hikaru Subject RE: ICE CREAM! Body: Yes! Haagen Daz! -------------------------------- To: Hikaru From: Derek Subject: RE:RE: ICE CREAM! Body: Okay. Going shopping!
This cuts the kids out of the yummy ice cream. Sometimes we need to have ice cream time together.
Questions.
- Do you email your spouse?
- Romantic or practical subject matter?
- Do you email while you are in the same room?
- When did the mails go from romantic to practical?
- Have you ever used email to resolve domestic issues?
Spousal emails.
Just sent one with a list of next months doctor’s appointments- which K2 will have to wiggle out of work for me to attend… I have never used an email to resolve a domestic dispute-However- I received one that had “I’m Sorry” written about 1000 times, and he called about 30 minutes later to confirm I had checked the email.
There are blessings to being bipolar and prone to rages.
Of course being on a military server- romantic is out of the question. I am not hot on the idea of some system Admin getting ahold of some hotly worded communiqué about private things, and forwarding it to K2’s commander.
id say that my emailing harv is contingent on whether i can get a hold of him through aim. its pretty much a last resort to talk to him, when all other channels dont work.
if not, i’d email him about pressing practical matters (reminding him to mail his mother a birthday card, or else be labled the biggest jerk to push his way out a vagina) or out of extreme desperation on my part to communitate with someone, resulting in terse one-liners like “Im horny” or “i miss you” or “where are you???”
i used to email harv when i was super pissed, but ive found it much more carthartic to get out my issues in person.