This was the watchword of Escoffier and it’s surely the way all things computing have to go. Back in October, The Economist had two articles: ‘Make it simple’ and ‘Now you see it, now you don’t’. The latter was sub-titled,

I recently read “Blogging Off,” an article by Whitney Pastorek that originally appeared in The Village Voice and was reprinted in the July / August issue of Utne Reader. Whitney presents an amusing analysis of “How Blogs Are Ruining My

I’ve been on Usenet for 13 years now (and if you know my age, that’s pretty shocking), and have been subscribed to around 50 mailing lists and newsgroups since I started college; you just have to learn to ignore anything that doesn’t immediately look very, very important.

The hardest part is learning that when somebody chooses a nondescript subject line for their message, that is THEIR fault and you MUST NOT read it. Case in point, I can now consume all the information I need to while spending less than 2hrs/day on email by simply ignoring the idiots who post messages containing nothing but a link to some site or article, or messages with the subject “Look at This!”. If they want my attention, they need to learn to include a summary.

Oh yeah, a really really good spam filter helps too.

I’ve had lots of trouble balancing my time online lately, between blog reading, publishing and code writing. Although I don’t use the bloglines update notifier, I leave bloglines opened in a tab and check it regularly. Unlike Steve Gillmor, who also is…

I’ve had lots of trouble balancing my time online lately, between blog reading, publishing and code writing. Although I don’t use the bloglines update notifier, I leave bloglines opened in a tab and check it regularly. Unlike Steve Gillmor, who also is…

light,
kate