{"id":73,"date":"2006-05-21T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/73"},"modified":"2014-04-11T22:40:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:40:02","slug":"why-jabber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/73","title":{"rendered":"Why Jabber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that when I signed up for WordPress.com to get the required credentials for Akismet, one of the things you could put on your profile was a Jabber Id and it reminded me that the gospel is slowly spreading but needs a lot more impetus. This quote succinctly explains the situation which currently exists<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know a lot of friends who have <a title=\"Hotmail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hotmail.com\/\">Hotmail<\/a> accounts. I also know a lot of friends who have <a title=\"GMail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\/\">GMail<\/a> accounts. I personally don&#8217;t use either, I have my own email server at deepdarc.com. Do I need to have an account on Hotmail in order to email my friends who use Hotmail, or a GMail account to email my friends who use GMail? Of course not&mdash;that would be absurd. Yet, that is exactly the situation we tolerate with respect to Instant Messaging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the excellent review of Jabber IM at <a title=\"Full Time Jabber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deepdarc.com\/2006\/05\/19\/full-time-jabber\/trackback\">deepdarc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Afternote: When entering this post it wouldn&#8217;t let me put in an xmpp: protocol link&mdash;more work needed there I think. My Jabber ID is on <a title=\"Home sweet home\" href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/home.htm\">my home page<\/a> if you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that when I signed up for WordPress.com to get the required credentials for Akismet, one of the things you could put on your profile was a Jabber Id and it reminded me that the gospel is slowly spreading but needs a lot more impetus. This quote succinctly explains the situation which currently exists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}