Unter http://www.nichtlustig.de gibt es wunderschöne Comics über depressive Elefanten, ängstliche Zebras, kreative Lemminge, sowie viele andere skurrile Alltags- und Nicht-Alltagssituationen. Absolut sehenswert!!!

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In der letzten Zeit habe ich viel über virales Marketing gelesen und gehört, speziell von einem Freund, der in diesem Bereich seine Diplomarbeit schreibt. Heute morgen ist diese neuartige Vermarkungswoge bis in die Wrangelstraße, genauer gesagt in meinen Briefkasten geschlagen. Dort fand sich ein gefütterter Umschlag, der nach dem Öffnen ein schmales Holzkästchen zu Tage förderte. Selbiges enthielt neben einer Lochkarte, welche auf der Rückseite die Beschriftung “THE FINAL MILL INC.”/”SERIES AAB” trug, einen Zettel mit folgender Info: “To execute these commandments you’ll have to find the properly gifted fellows.” Der Poststempel besagt, dass der Umschlag in Frankfurt aufgegeben wurde.

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Up until last week I used Bloglines to organize and read my RSS feeds. Since I have two computers and regularly access my feeds from both, I found this to be the best solution. While Bloglines satisfied my needs at first, over time I got more and more upset with their interface. Clicking on a feed automatically marks ALL items in it as read, no matter whether you actually read them or not. So if you have a feed with an already fairly large amount of unread items in it, you better work through them at one go, otherwise you’ll loose some. Trying to bring back items that you couldn’t read (because you maybe clicked on another feed in-between) by setting the display option to display “All items” will do the thing, although then you will still have to determine on your own, which items you have or haven’t already read. This got me to the point where I postponed reading some of my feeds until I could spare the time of struggling through 300+ news items and over time this got worse and worse. In the end I always just clicked on the damn thing to get it over with (not having read a single line:-)

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Yesterday I wrote about Gmail’s introduction of IMAP. After fiddling around with it a little I must say that I’m not impressed by their IMAP implementation of the tagging system, or “labels” as they call it. On the client side the labels are represented by individual folders, one for each label. So if I want to tag one of my e-mails with “work”, “php” and “project”, I simply create 3 folders with the appropriate names and put a COPY of my mail into each one. Although Gmail lets you nest these folders, I wonder what my Outlook will look like in about a year….thousands of folders….

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Finally!!! GMail now supports IMAP, which ends the era of endless “forwarding chains” of connected GMail accounts. In the end I had 5 different accounts (each of which forwared a copy of the incoming mail to the next one), one for each computer/device I wanted to POP my mails onto. Fortunately, the people from GMail heard all the crying.

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