Don't call it a Substack. Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and dis...
Burners, Pollution, Control & Privacy By A Thousand Cuts The key to protecting people's privacy on the internet isn't in trying to stop users' data from being sent to different services, it's in poisoning the well by...
Feminism, Corruption, Privacy, Remix Here's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (sampled in @Beyonce 's "Flawless") offering the truth: we should all be feminists. http://t.co/uZekGPQEcL...
Google Office: Google Apps for Your Domain The first version of Google Apps for Your Domain has been released, offering hosted applications that provide free, ad-supported services including email, c...
First of the Month Happy mailman-owner email day! He’s the guy who just sends you a reminder, once a month, about your subscriptions. He’ll even offer you some URLs if you’d li...
gmail goes pop Well, one more barrier to me using gmail just fell away… they’ve added free POP support to their mail service. I still don’t use gmail, but they’re making it h...
The Andrew Sullivan of Email Everyone I know complains that they can’t keep up with their email and that responding to it takes too much time. And of course, this is the same justification...
Outlook as a platform Despite all the security vulnerabilities over the years, the clunky interface, and the near-glacial pace of improvements to the program, I still use Microsoft...
housekeeping notes Steven’s lament is particularly timely for me… If you’ve been waiting on an email from me at any time since Friday night, my apologies, as I’ve been having t...
The web is my Underwood typewriter [ Hint: This isn’t funny unless you read it in an Andy Rooney voice.] Did you ever notice how some people just like to complain on the Internet? I hear a lo...
Checking In Just a quick note to everybody who’s emailed. Thanks for checking in and I’m fine. I wasn’t in Manhattan when the lights went out. Daily links will resume on M...
what's new with what's true Hey, everyone, it’s my last post on all this foolishness . I’d like to get back to the fun stuff. First, a tremendous thank you to everyone who’s emailed, lin...
administrative note A little administrative note for those few of you who still insist on contacting me by phone: My phone number will be changing today whenever I find a cool new...
cnet spam tools I’m kinda perplexed why CNET’s download site lets people post spam tools in their email utilities section. You get descriptions like: AnyMailer is bulk...
Donkey Show An Actual Email Anil Got At Work: From: [Name Withheld] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 2:57 PM To: Everyone Subject: donkey show I am not runnin...
I was re-reading an email I was re-reading an email I had sent to a friend who had emailed me on my birthday, in the first week of September. In my reply, I had said “After [personal re...
To all who emailed, thanks To all who emailed, thanks for the kind words and commisseration in regards to " Pardon Me… " In reply to the most asked question, you can feel free...
I get interesting mail sometimes. I get interesting mail sometimes. Like this: Someone has sent you hate mail from http://raging.nu/ihateyou.php Here it is… I’ve seen you around met...
From: xxxxxx@aol.com Sent: Monday, August **From:** xxxxxx @aol.com Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:11 AM To: classified@villagevoice.com ; webmaster@villagevoice.com Subject: personal ad prob...
Umm, it's a bit uncharacteristic Umm, it’s a bit uncharacteristic of me to write something like this, but please… everyone who’s emailed recently, bear with me, I promise I’ll write back soo...
I am the only person I am the only person who likes Microsoft Outlook. That is, until recently. They added a stupid, "save me from myself" security fix to it that made...
If, like me, you've ever If, like me, you’ve ever had to do a mailing to an email list that includes AOL users, you’ll find the Unofficial AOL Email FAQ quite useful....
A few well-timed emails from A few well-timed emails from people in response to my whining below made me realize the true source of all my synchronized miseries: I neglected to forward al...
Forgot to mention I'm Internet Forgot to mention I’m Internet Worlding all week, so if any of you are in town for the shindig, email me and we’ll get together, okey dokey?...
Gotta love marketing speak. An Gotta love marketing speak. An excerpt of an actual email I received today for testing a new service reads: In exchange for participating in the trial, you...
Thank goodness Meg pointed out Thank goodness Meg pointed out that email from Register.com was actually a useful offer… I had already skimmed it and deleted it as spam before I saw her wri...
I hate Unix. There, I I hate Unix . There, I said it. Anyone wanna make a few bucks taking care of some really simple Perl crap for me? Pleeeeeeease …?...
Ugh. The phrase "Viral Marketing" Ugh . The phrase "Viral Marketing" has already come and gone, but someone must have forgotten to tell the folks at the (revoltingly named) Epidemic...
But enough about me. Today But enough about me . Today we feature guest peeves. First, from TurlyMing dot com : A short list of things that annoy me, in no particular order: – Fa...
