Google has clarified its policies surrounding GMail. Matthew Haughey sums the whole situation up very well: “it boggles my mind that they even have to go to such great lengths to explain how their subtle ads aren’t the new red menace.”
In odd Canadian news today,
BC MP Svend Robinson is stepping down and taking a “medical leave from politics.” It seems that Mr Robinson has had some stress issues that have bled over into behaviour issues.
New
They suggest that “Search inside the book” results are presented under the “Books” tab on the standard results page, but I tried it and it didn’t work. That’s a pretty tough test so I tried again with a more precise search and it got the book right but not the page that my name appears on.
I may have forgotten to post
that economics professors Koleman Strumpf and Felix Oberholzer have published a preliminary version of what I think is an important paper: The effect of file sharing on record sales – an empirical analysis [360K PDF]. The authors have come under withering criticism since putting the draft online, but the paper is clearly much better than anything else that has been published on the subject. If you’re curious, the New Observer in Raleigh NC has published a profile of Strumpf. Doesn’t look like an anarchist to me!
Search don’t sort
is the principle that stands behind Google’s Gmail. Rael Dornfest is beginning an experiment to do the same on his desktop.
I hadn’t really thought of it, but it’s not that different than what I have done for years. I have never really presorted email in anything other than chronological folders – no folders for specific subjects or anything like that. Any other system has always seemed inadequate for me, as it relies on building a taxonomy that is complete and exclusive – something that doesn’t mix well with email.
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