So, someone has suggested that everyone pile into the chat room and be silly.  That's all well and good, but has anyone noticed that there doesn't seem to be a chat room on CoolRunning?  What to do?  What to do?

Doin' it the IRC way

Here's the deal:  Boomers participants are using a chat protocol called IRC.  It was around long before Yahoo or MSN Messenger, but is the same basic idea.

• In any IRC program (mIRC is a good one for Windows, MustangSally uses the ChatZilla extension for Firefox
• You can follow these instructions but instead of using#Oncomputers use #coolrunning as the room.
• http://www.ajcyberguide.com/mirc/
• You can also get to the server this way from the status window

  /server chat.oncomputers.info:7000 then hit enter

  then when it connects /join #coolrunning and hit enter

   

  What about the Mac people?

  Here is an article about different Mac IRC clients.  It seems that many people use ircle.

A new idea to try

It looks as if pbwiki includes a chat widget.  Maybe we could play with this.