Google Talk's Chatback

To communicate more with visitors to my site (if you really do exist), I've installed a Google Talk feature in the left column of my page that lets you chat with me. It's called "chatback" - instead of me doing all the talking on my blog, you can talk back to me. You should still leave comments, but I understand those are public and hard to use for a real conversation. With chatback it's a real instant message session.

If I'm available you can just click and start chatting. A window like the one to the right will pop-up on your screen.

The way it works is I'm "online," or available to chat, whenever I'm signed on to gmail.

You don't need any sort of account or anything to chat with me.

If you want to put this on your own blog/site, go here. All you'll need a gmail account.

Say hi and let me know what you think.

*Special thanks to my friend Doug for introducing it to me through his blog.

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