* Backspin: The format is in the e-mai * Gearhead: Tools for travelers * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Backspin: The format is in the e-mail
What is e-mail for? I ask that rhetorically because I think I know the answer: to communicate information.
But this leads to a more complex question: How much information can we communicate using an e-mail message? Moreover, how much information should we be able to communicate?
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Gearhead: Tools for travelers
How many times have you been traveling and, hours or even days after plugging your laptop into the broadband connection in your hotel room, you realize you didn’t change your PC configuration from your office setup to something more secure?
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The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
The Format is in the E-mail
In this week’s Backspin I discuss the value of HTML formatted e-mail. I contend that HTML email is not only useful as it increases the information carried, it also improves the quality of users’ writing.
So, can we find a safe, expressive medium that satisfies the presentation requirements of the New School of email users while it addresses at least some of the Old School’s concerns? My suggestions are either a limited set of HTML that excludes scripting and CSS or a technology like Adobe’s Flashpaper.
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No Longer the Happiest Company on Earth?
You’d think that with still having gazillions in the bank they’d be a lot jollier but as their share price sinks it seems all is not happy at Google …
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Antagonized into an Fisticuff of Advocates
My esteemed editor just received the following scam via snail mail from a Texas inmate who was apparently inspired by the finely worded content of Nigerian 411 scam letters …
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Protecting Students From WiFi Radiation
As bizarre as it might seem to anyone with even a shaky grasp of the physics and current health research involved, a Canadian university is foregoing the campus deployment of WiFi because …
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Time Sink #5
Do you like popping bubble wrap? Well …
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Gibbs Out Loud: “Episode 41,750: Worry, Worry, Worry.”
As threatened in Gearhead, an episode of “Gibbs Out Loud”, titled “Episode 41,750: Worry, Worry, Worry.” is available …
