I was reading in a magazine about the fellow who created a website called livejournal.com which was one of the early web logs. He developed the code over time from a command-line system to a web system to a multi-user system. He said that he sometimes entered information into his weblog thirty or forty times a day! I have a hard time getting one post a week onto my weblog so it’s difficult to imagine what someone would have to say when they posted thirty or more times in a day. Later on in the article I learned that most of these posts were something like "going downstairs to get a Dr. Pepper" or similar. After that I didn’t feel so bad. But, he did say that an early innovation he put on his web log was the ability for people to send messages to his pager.

Well, I have a cell phone that will receive text messages. So, I’ve added this ability to my web log. On the sidebar on the right side of the page is a new quick link: Send Msg to Roland. Clicking on that link will open up a new window. A text message of up to 80 characters can be sent to my cell phone. Try it out…!!

Now that this works, the next innovation will be to allow folks to sign up to receive an e-mail message whenever something new is posted to this website. Shouldn’t be too hard….!