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Musing about mail

August 31st, 2006 · 12 Comments · Four pillars

I’ve been immensely frustrated with e-mail in enterprises over the years, for a variety of reasons:

Dangling Conversations, where an e-mail sent to a specific mail list then creates a number of partially-overlapping conversations as people subtract and add people to the list for random, often selfish reasons. Decision-making gets difficult as a result because the [...]

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Things I have been able to do Because Of my blog

August 31st, 2006 · 10 Comments · Four pillars

There’s been a lot of coverage on “monetising” blogs of late, partly catalysed by a Business 2.0 article titled Blogging for Dollars.
So I thought I’d write about something else, something far removed from “monetising”. Things I have been able to do Because Of my blog, rather than With my blog. These are (in no particular [...]

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More on Identity

August 31st, 2006 · 3 Comments · Four pillars

Doc has just put up a great “post’ on Suitwatch; it’s more an article than a post, and Suitwatch’s not a blog, but so what? Subscribe via this link if you want to read it.
Update: You can now read the entire article via this link at Linux Journal.
Let me tempt you with a few tidbits [...]

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