less RTFM more KISS

before I woke this morning, pauline was blogging here. before christmas was over vanessa was ‘podcasting’ / recording her sisters views on doctor who for playback. brother kevin got 80’s video up on youtube; is my nerdiness rubbing off? i think not, i think the tools of communication and content are so easy now, they make computing look difficult. The broswer allows PCs to become nodes that never shut down (good for the climate change / bad for the ice caps) and the VOIP phone is becoming standard (ok its a long way off) but the technophobes will use it and will never know what VOIP is when asked at a pub quiz. you see they never cared to know what PSTN was or a coil microphone or the voltage of the telephone service, they USED it, it did things. for computing to get wider family adoption it must do things with out a RTFM or night classes…. KISS keep it simple stupid.