Come Check Out ‘For Your Consideration’
In December I announced For Your Consideration, my tool for sharing interesting things I find. Since then, I’ve mostly ignored it due to a lack of time to do any promotion over the holidays (besides,...
View ArticleUsenet Trolls, by Gilbert and Sullivan (sort of)
Special thanks to Derek DeLash, although I’m not sure if he was sending me a joke or an accusation…. Tom Holt (allegedly) on Usenet Trolls (to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivans “Modern Major...
View ArticleValidating Email Addresses
Validating Email Addresses – The Daily WTF: The format for e-mail addresses is specified in a number of RFCs; it’s a pet peeve of mine when people “validate” away perfectly valid addresses, for...
View ArticleHow to Help Mailing Lists Help Readers (Results of Recent Data Analysis)
How to Help Mailing Lists Help Readers (Results of Recent Data Analysis): This second, independent experiment reinforced my conviction that: Although mailing lists and newsgroups provide valuable...
View ArticleNew and interesting uses for webmail
For the last couple of weeks people at work have heard me muttering in the halls about “those damn geeks”. I’ve been chasing down and cleaning up after a group that’s been using the webmail system as a...
View ArticleReports of Usenet’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
Reports of Usenet’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated: Is Usenet dead, as Sascha posits? I don’t think so. As long as there are folks who think a command line is better than a mouse, the original text-only...
View ArticleWill paid content work?
But can we learn anything from paid content attempts in the past? After all, this has been tried at varying levels before. Until The New York Times opens the books on its mothballed Times Select...
View ArticleProtecting mailto links (my advice: don’t)
Got this in email the other day, decided the answer might interest some of you. I actually just had a quick random question about your Contact Us page on chuqui.com I agree about not putting a phone...
View ArticleAn audience of one….
I got this in an email today. Since I’ve been thinking about similar things over the last week or so, I figured I’d continue mulling it over here in public for the amusment and horror of all… I am...
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