When I went to work for the Clark campaign I was really taken back by how many people I worked with used AOL's instant messenger. At Red Hat we *always* used IRC. Still, I had an old account from testing a client at Red Hat so I joined in. I still forget about it and have to sign in to say hello to my "Clark friends" from time to time. It is nice - they were right to be using it... however...
I read this weekend that AOL has announced that they own anything and everything one says on their protocol and can use one's words in any way they see fit. Well, I don't 'cotton' to that idea, so I am disabling AIM in my IM client. Right now I have a yahoo id (damason) but I am going to look more into jabber as well - I can't quite figure out why all jabber clients crash when I try to 'register', plus I dont really like the IRC approach to registering where my nick name might be used by someone else... more research needed.
So, if you miss seeing me on IM, you are using "the man's" protocol and I'm not.
Note: I think my jabber id is dcm (at sign thingy) jabber.org]
Posted by dmason at March 14, 2005 10:55 AM