Instant Message Me Direct from Azazil.net
Not including mailing lists or spam, I typically receive a couple of hundred emails every day, and I try to respond to the relevant ones as soon as they move into my attention — marking them unread to remind myself to get back to them later is generally doomed to failure as incoming mails push that message ever further from the front page of my email reader. Consequently, I tend to be a little shy about advertising my email address, and made a conscious decision not to include a contact page. I’ve even gone so far as to obfuscate the Message Me link on my myspace page.
A good proportion of you, gentle readers, don’t use RSS or email subscriptions to read my articles, and since I’m currently ruminating on how to improve your experience when visiting this site, I do want to supply some means of getting in touch without leaving an off-topic comment. Enter Plugoo, an IM flash application newly embedded into my sidebar. Not only will it queue messages for me when I’m offline, but I can answer you in real-time if I’m online 
I plan to leave it in place for a few weeks to see how it works for me (and you!) before I decide whether to make it a permanent addition to the site. So, why not try it out and say “hi!”…
2 Responses so far
2007.06.24@5:02 pm
Hi Gary,
I like the new plugin. While I do use your RSS feed (it makes life so much easier to keep track of new posts), it was good to be able to just chat. I’ll have to think about this for mine..maybe.
Regards,
Ian
2007.06.24@7:03 pm
I’m impressed with how well it works, and it was certainly fun chatting with you this afternoon. It’s easy to install too, just a couple of lines of html to load the flash widget configured at your plugoo account