A couple of years ago, my mom peered over my sister’s shoulder and read the message on her phone. “Lol? Who is lolling you? Is that some kind of rude word?”

With e-mail, instant messaging, facebook, twitter and SMSs or text messages, a new form of writing has emerged. Due to the fact that many of these new systems limit the number of characters you can use, people try many different ways to get a meaningful message across in the smallest possible way. This includes substituting numbers for letters, letters for words and numerous misspellings of words in order to try and use fewer characters.

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What is a blog? When I was asked to contribute to this blog, I decided to try to find out what makes a blog a blog. I found so much information, but I also found myself having to sift through a lot of other stuff just to try and narrow down to what I was looking for. (more…)

Foursquare seems to be the latest thing in mobile technology & we are seeing more and more people making use of it.

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