If you use Gmail as your primary email provider, you had a problem yesterday. Gmail went down for a lot of the day. From the thunder reverberating around the web, Twitter, and elsewhere, one would have thought the digital world had ended. Strangely, I use a Gmail account for my personal mail and never noticed a thing since I was accessing that mail via Blackberry yesterday. Aside from yet another example of how these machines are evil, sentient beings, the outage raises a bigger point in my mind. Continue reading
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Not So Spry
Yesterday, I had one of those nasty experiences that teach us a lot about good business practices. The story I’m about to tell you doesn’t contain much in the way of news but it does serve to remind us all about a few areas of best practices.
I use Spry to host my web site and my company mail. I access my mail via Thunderbird, Gmail, or my Blackberry depending on where I am and on what computer. When things became, as they say in the movies, “quiet…too quiet”, I dug a little deeper. Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Huh?, Reality checks
<3, Granny
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Another tidbit from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. It’s not really that surprising but the biggest increase in internet use since 2005 is the 70-75 year-old age group. I love growth statistics. Start with a smallish base, increase the tiny base a small amount – voila! Big growth rate (growing something by half is way easier when it’s small than when it’s big, unless we’re talking about my waistline). Continue reading
Filed under digital media, Thinking Aloud
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