Sunday, December 03, 2000

Regarding my previous discussion (11/27/00) on the word "nerd" and the extent of my own nerdiness: new evidence has been unearthed to support the claim that yes, I am a nerd. Ahem:
I was on one of my late night/early morning web excursions (evidence in and of itself?) and stumbled across the TellMe Studio, which utilizes the new VXML (VoiceXML). From my painfully limited understanding, VXML is used to, essentially, code websites that are accessed over the phone. Does that make any sense at all? "Websites" made with VXML are coded in a fairly standard format, which woudn't look to foreign to anyone familiar with HTML, and will actually make sense to anyone who knows about XML. The difference is that these sites are not viewed, but heard. Rather than typing in an URL to see the published material, you call a phone number. Content is published and then accessed through the use of standard menus teamed with cutting edge voice recognition technology.
Now this is all a load of techno-babble that I'm far from grasping. The point is, all this excited me immensely! Sitting in my room alone, at some unearthly hour, I actually uttered "Oh, cool!" out loud. Oh dear me. I signed up immediately with TellMe Studio, though I don't know at all what my VXML "site" will be about. Two people I know of publish their blogs with VXML, but mine are really not interesting or informative enough for that. So I'm thinking through some things. I'd like to drop out of school for a few weeks, just to fully immerse myself in all this until I can crank out killer VXML pages like there's no tomorrow. Ay me, the greatness I can only dream of aspring to...

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