Anyone trying to email me using my gmail account: I don’t know where you found that address, but I never use it and almost never log in, so it’s not a good way to reach me. barnaby@waterpigs.co.uk remaims my only active personal email address.
Email-related incident at work proves yet again that noreply@ email addresses harm your business. Always let people reply to a human, even if the email was sent by a robot.
Brett SlatkinBrett Slatkin I like this tip because it creates a system which tends towards a lack of email being sent :)
When people drop into your IRC channel to ask whether it’s possible to reply to something on your mailing list, that’s probably a good sign you should ditch your mailing list and use IRC + Wiki.
Archiving some of my old email, I find this blast from the recent past (March 2012) in Mac app idea form:
Postflow: A tool for social media power-users. Interactively create automator-like 'postflows' that allow you to quickly and effectively post the same bit of content to lots of different social networks.
With useful features, such as:
- Real-time execution and editing: Work through a postflow step by step, changing it and the content you're posting as you go along.
- Floating Results window that displays text and links to everything you've posted so far in the flow. Automatically shorterns URLS.
- Preset Variables: Set a list of commonly used items e.g. your URL, @twitter_name, other social network profile page URL, etc.
- Fully automated postflows (?): Set up postflows that take one input and does everything else by it's self.
- Extensive library of posting actions
- Quick Post UI: For small updates that still need to go out to lots of people. Forego some of the fine-grained control of a full postflow for sheer speedyness.
- Ability to add other networks through a plugin creator (?) will work provided basic API types are supported.
- Automated admin work: Change profile photo, description, details on multiple networks simultaneously.
The Quick Post utility by it's self could be given away as a free sampler of the more advanced full Postflow — gives people the 'post to lots of networks intelligently' ability, but not the advanced features or customisation
Hmm, that sounds suspiciously like a certain Yahoo Pipes clone I’m working on…
Bag romance — still a better love story than Twilight: #clangers
The Clangers is so synaesthetic. Everywhere there’s physical/visual representations of music.
DELICIOUS ICELANDIC CHOCOLATE WAFER named after the Cuban drum?! Must taste:
Enjoy rice cake+peanut butter+dark cooking chocolate? Try sticking it under the grill for a few minutes then spreading the chocolate around:
Playing with Jittergram at the office:
#wikipedia article of the week: List of fictional railway stations
Lots and lots of chocolate in the office today, courtesy of Brian Suda and borgamynd.com
Sheesh, it gets even better: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_can_you_get_hot_water_when_the_water_is_cold
I have discovered the question to end all questions. And, whaddaya know, someone's answered it. #bookmark
#wikipedia article of the week: List of Breads
Name suggestions for my two new #sourdough cultures? Jovian Salak?
Terrible copy in KEF:
Duty free shopping is Iceland at it’s purest? Seriously? May as well jump back on the plane without leaving the airport then.
Apparently the experience of buying aforementioned duty free goods is so bad that signs are required to reassure you that the goods are worth it.
Supported sessions.mozillafestival.org/proposals/this-is-the-homepage-youre-looking-for, #indieweb MozFest session (although personal domains > github.io subdomains)
Drink Water, not Beer:
