Another excursion yesterday into the slightly surreal and often intermittent world of the Skype conference call; six people in 4 locations. It worked remarkably well, thanks in no small part to the computer moderator and everyone's patience. I thought of Rogers and Hammerstein ...
Meeting protocols in the digital age
Some enchanted meeting
You'll email a stranger
You'll email a stranger
Across a crowded room
And somehow you'll know,
You'll know even then
That somewhere you'll mail them
Again and again.
.
Some enchanted meeting
Someone may be tweeting,
You may see them tweeting
Across a crowded room
And night after night,
As strange as it seems
What's now in their tweets
Will sing in your dreams.
.
Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Facebook gives you reasons,
Google also tries.
.
Some enchanted meeting
When you find your blogger,
And you read their postings
Across a crowded room,
Then fly to their side,
And make them your own
Or all through your life you
May browse all alone.
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Just as good as the original ...
Brilliant adaptation!