Maintaining friendships after Facebook and Twitter: Some people are like, “How are you supposed to maintain normal human relationships?” Don’t worry, I tell them. There are way better ways to be internet friends than Facebook and Twitter. In fact,…
A collection of 11 posts
The intimacy of e-mail newsetters
Interesting history of the email curation platform Revue from its founder Martijn de Kuijper: Back then I saw the value of the newsletter and I still do. It’s such an intimate way to communicate with people, and so effective…
Slaying the e-mail monster
I’ve been staring at an unusual sight on and off over the last 18 hours or so: Yes, I’ve hit inbox zero. And I need to keep as close to this as I can. Here’s why: My…
Financial Times ups its morning e-mail game: FirstFT
Slightly baffling e-mail from the Financial Times press team this morning: Financial Times readers can now receive the FT’s daily top picks of global news, comment and analysis from around the web by signing up to FirstFT. Concise and…
Saying Goodbye to Gmail
Last night I switched the e-mail hosting provider behind @onemanandhisblog.com from Gmail to Hover’s e-mail service. Why? Two reasons mainly: I very rarely use webmail. Maybe I’m just showing my internet age, but the majority of my…
Weekend Joy and Monday Reality
The weekend: The Monday morning price of ignoring the internets for the delights of the beach: And I don’t even want to think about the marking……
Interhacktives: the best of digital journalism by e-mail
Really nice intiative from the Interactive Journalism MA students at City. They run the digital jouralism website Interhacktives as part of their course, as have the two generations that precdeeded them. This year’s cohort have added a neat e-mail…
Post-LeWeb: Facebook's quiet pivot into your mobile phone
David Kirkpatrick‘s chat with Peter Deng about Facebook at Le Web last week looked, at first, like a ho-hum product announcement, but the more I think about it the more I’m convinced that it gave us an insight…