I was struck the other day by the difference a good headline can make in a news email bulletin. Here’s a few from from my inbox in the past couple of days: I subscribe to more news than I can handle and am often in a hurry or tired when I scroll through these. I’ve [...]
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Steve Rubel describes three ways newspapers are experimenting with delivery: rich, searchable email editions; hyper-vertical navigation (ability to drill down to more and more specific pages of information), and innovative mobile apps. Nice idea to track new developments in this crucial area.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
A nice observation about email expectations from Merlin Mann, a software usability expert quoted in Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn't take long until you have acquired a pile of pebbles that's taller than you and heavier than you could ever hope to move, even if you wanted to do it over a few dozen trips.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Earlier this week someone borrowed my gmail address and sent a spam email to all my gmail contacts at around 5 in the morning. It made me pretty upset, I can tell you, not to mention embarrassed. Bad enough that someone 'broke in' while I was sleeping, as it were, worse to spam my contacts. Hrrmph.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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