Remembering the email option

I'm waiting on Posthaven to come out with their themes until the end of December, as they've promised. It's been a long nine- or ten-month wait. It had better be worth it.
 
At the same time, I really like the option to post by email and it becoming an email discussion at the same time it's posted on site. I've not taken advantage of that.
 
The demise of email has been loudly heralded. But if fax machines are still around, it's not likely that such a common means of communication will soon go by the wayside. Marketers, though they are by no means the harbingers of technology and trends, still tout email lists as the best way to get a message out there.
 
I'm testing the quote feature, pay no mind.
 
Must be that year-end itchiness to regroup, reevaluate, redefine things, but I've been looking more at Known, RedMatrix, GNUsocial, and TiddlySpace, etc., and how to best use them, or if to use them further. Are there too many good options out there? Or do all of them offer something unique?
 
I'm leaving my email sig in this time to see if Posthaven removes it, as I seem to remember it will. Anything below here?

Cloudburst: Virtual relations

The big ones get mentioned in this seven-line poem: blogs, Pinterest, Kindle/Nook, Twitter, and Facebook. The ABABCBC rhyme scheme holds it together.

Scrolling down goes late at night,

So says the third line, four meters like the rest. We are too busy online, are we not? That's the point of this poem. I should know.

I was able to get this poem out tonight, thanks to my new writing plan.

The background to this Cloudburst poem got placed here rather than on the website because Tumblr has a lousy interface and Cloudburst is going to move away from there before long.

Rains, pours

First it was the Heartbleed bug. Now WP Jetpack announces a major critical security update for a bad bug. After the Mozilla action, seems like the Internet is having a hard time of it.

Where to go

I've abandoned #FireFox, using Safari and Opera at the moment, but I don't know if they'll really serve me. Am missing some key functions. This has shaken up much of what I do on the Internet. As well as other well-worn neural paths. I need to update my OS, but that will have to wait. In the meantime. ...

Host blocking me

The web host for many of our sites (FMag, BNc, my personal blog) is again blocking our IP server. This has happened before, and we are not amused, as the Queen used to say. Friends in southeast Asia and New Zealand are constantly blocked. I have complained to no avail. Entire countries are included in their blocking, which makes no sense.

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Not the server, but my provider?

People in the US are accessing BNc, FMag, my blog etc. But I can't. So it's apparently something down this way, my provider or Anatel, the BigGov bad guy.

All sorts of stuff is happening. Our email list service is down, for one. The owner says his IP did a really bad booboo.

Also, the Missus tried to change money today, and the system debited our bank account without spitting out the cash. So she's gone to the bank to straighten that out. Last time this happened, it took three months to get our money back. While they enjoyed using it.

And Breitbart died. Is all this a communist plot, a leftist conspiracy?

Processing your inbox is part of your work

Processing your inbox is your work. It's not something extra you have to do, or some distraction that doesn't belong in your life...unless of course you feel the same way about your physical mailbox. Like it or not, dealing with all your email is as much a part of your work (and required to do your job as well as you can) as keeping lists, clearing your head, or doing regular reviews. Yet consistently, we come across a resistance people have to driving their inboxes down to zero on a regular basis—as if that's a luxury reserved for those who don't get much input or don't have anything better to do. It's a critical component for keeping you in a clear, current and creative space to work and play at your best.
via davidco.com

Writer urges Internet junkies to 'switch off' and think

"Multitasking erodes cognitive control. We lose our ability to say that this is important, this is unimportant. All we want is new information."

In contrast, when readers open a printed book, "there's nothing else going on except words on a page, no distractions. It helps train us to be deep thinkers."

Carr, 52, told AFP he's not optimistic society will switch off en masse but it's important to look clearly at what it might be losing.

via breitbart.com

Bill Clinton: You’re too stupid to figure out what’s true on the Internet - Big Journalism

The internet is a wild free for all. It is an unregulated mass of free speech. It is, for all intents and purposes, the only such unregulated mass of free speech going today. That’s why people love it so. You can put up parody. You can post your made ravings on the convergence of string theory and mozzarella cheese sticks. You can even make stuff up and email it to all your friends. It’s up to the reader to filter out the truth from fiction, just like every other source of information in the world.

The truth is out there. It’s just not the government’s job to make sure that’s what is on the internet.

via bigjournalism.com