If I have to be on hold, what I hear while waiting affects my tolerance for the experience.
In other words, I like dealing with places whose politics I agree with but it's also nice for the technology that makes it possible.
DoreneC
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> A couple of hours ago I bought a subscription to the Brooklyn Academy of
> Music, and while they had me on hold, instead of playing music, they played
> Obama's speech to the AMA from a couple of hours ago:
>
> URL: http://news.lalate.com/2009/06/15/obama-ama-youtube-and-text/
>
> Quite aside from the merits of the speech (my takeaway from time, place and
> content is that it means O really is serious about there being public
> option, which is nice), it was *much* better than listening to the lo-fi
> music they usually supply. They left me on hold for 15 minutes, and I
> wasn't half as pissed as I normally would have been; the time passed,
> because if I had to listen to something, this counted reasonably
> interesting.
>
> But I can't think of anything like this ever happening in my lifetime
> before. Piping political speeches into phones? At apolical venues? Wow.
>
> Michael
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