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Please Leave Your Life Story after the Beep

June 3, 2010
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The post featured an hour-long interview with Franko, and the interviewer asked the artist about her new installation “I’ll Get Back to You as Soon as I Can”, an archived arrangement of Franko’s old voicemail messages. Listen to the first few minutes for samples of the messages. I will offer some highlights here.

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Commitment Is Calling the Landline

June 1, 2010
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But I wonder: what did we do before cell phones and the Internet? If someone wanted to date you or be your friend, that person would have to call you on your landline, leave a voicemail if you didn’t answer, and schedule a time and place to meet. Calling a landline meant effort, and scheduling a time to meet meant commitment.

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Make Sure the Concrete Is Dry

May 27, 2010
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A lot of companies use metaphors to describe their products and/or services. They have grand philosophies about their methodologies, the ways they interact with customers, and their commitment to quality and excellence. Blah, blah, blah. Let’s get to the point.

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5 “Internetized” Idioms

May 25, 2010
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New mediums mean that we need new ways to describe and talk about them. I take five common idioms related to communication and translate them for the Internet age: “spread like wildfire”; “put in a nutshell”; “be on the same wavelength”; “bite your tongue”; and “keep you posted”.

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I’m Not Done Talking, but You Can Stop Listening

May 19, 2010
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Do you ever get the sense that someone has stopped listening to you, but you don’t even care because you need to get whatever you want to say out of your system? Have you ever sent someone approximately 48 text messages in the middle of the night, even though you knew that person was sleeping?

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