Voice Mail Archives

Past editions of Voice Mail, Beth Dunn's newsletter on writing and voice.

Posts about apologies:

Who's Speaking, Please?

Who's Speaking, Please?

When you use some delightful piece of software, is it yours, or does it belong to the company that built it? Okay. Obviously, in a strictly legal sense, software is intellectual property that "belongs" to its makers. But don't we talk about "my Google doc" and "my Excel spreadsheet" and "my Facebook wall?"

Sure we do. So it's a bit jarring when the interface reflects a totally different point of view.