Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Talk to your presidential candidates

I've previously used Jott to blog here. And I use it all the time to send e-mail reminders to myself.

It's a great service where you call a toll-free number, leave a voice message and they transcribe it for you and send it wherever you say you want it to go.

Well now you can use Jott the Vote to send messages to a presidential candidate. I think this is a wonderful idea. Now if you've just collected your prescriptions and are sick of healthcare costs, you can call your favorite candidate and give them an earful.

Thanks Jott for making it really easy to get a message to our future president - whichever one of the seventeen candidates that turns out to be!

Oh, and if Jott should get your message slightly wrong, be sure to let the folks at Misjott know!

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Monday, September 10, 2007

Lost in Translation?

Not my normal fare. But after using Jott.com over the weekend to blog (successfully) and to Twitter (not so well), I couldn't resist this.

Have you been misquoted by Jott.com? Did an important message get mangled on it's way to a loved one or a client?

Does "Add Google Analytics" come out as "Add Google and Letics"?

Why not tell the folks at MisJott.com so others don't suffer the same terrible fate.

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Saturday, September 08, 2007

Saturday evening ramblings

I drove down to Connecticut this afternoon for my bike ride tomorrow. The organizers have done an awesome job marking the route. I drove around it after arriving and it looks challenging and fun.

You'll notice that I now have a Patient Blogger badge in my sidebar. I applied for this after reading Amy's great post about ethics. I hope this gives you some confidence that I work hard to write a blog that follows these rules.

Tomorrow I'm planning to try a little experiment in live blogging. Recently I signed up for a Jott account. Marston made me do it! This nifty web 2.0 application lets you send messages by calling a toll-free number and talking carefully. I've set it up so that I can Twitter and/or blog from my mobile phone.

So tomorrow during my bike ride I plan to use Jott to update Twitter on how things are going. I may also post to the blog during a rest in the ride. We'll see how well it works in real life.

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