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...Yard Bucket, the first-year version of the Straus Cup. After Holworthy beat out Massachusetts Hall, the pair moved on form the Yard to the river. Now it’s their mission to remedy Eliot House’s mediocre performance in intramural (IM) sports...
...performance consisted of Chu and another graduate student, Gabriella Gruder-Poni, literally having an IM conversation—only one that was shown on a giant screen and in front of an audience. Before the instant-messaging could begin, however, a lot of spoken words had to be thrown around—Chu first gave a crash course in messaging to IM newbie Gabriella Gruder-Poni. Amidst audience protests that “this is against the rules,” Chu vocally prompted Gruder-Poni to “press send.” Finally signed on to AOL?...
While there was only the soft clickety-click of the keyboard and tri-tone IM sound alerts to interest the ears, the seventeen-plus audience did not, however, fall asleep. “You’ve certainly brought back the exclamation mark,” one audience member’s comment at the end of the presentation, accounts for the many chuckles at Chu’s copious use of exclamation marks and Gruder-Poni’s decision to follow suit. But the crowd wasn’t just paying attention to punctuation: in typical academic...
...screen allowed the audience to follow every deleted word, was interspersed with the occasional reply or comment from Gruder-Poni. The red of “DialogueSYJChu” definitely out-performed the blue of “Dialogue GGPoni” on the electoral map of the IM screen. Though Chu had posited the possibility of “instant-messaging as a medium of intellectual exchange” and an audience member had called it “a good way to brainstorm,” Gruder-Poni’s final conclusion was rather ironic...
Harvard President Harry S. Winters’s bounding leap into the world of online instant messenging has sent reverberations throughout the academic and policy worlds. Winters’s buddy list includes OralOffice69, FedReserve4Life and HBombgirl7. Conspicuously absent is hiphopprof10. Winters’s is rumored to have IM-ed hiphopprof10 with a plaintative, “R U still mad at me?” He was promptly blocked by the (still) irate prof. Guess there won’t be any friendster-ing between the two anytime soon...