Cory Doctorow has wrote some interesting views on e-mail reading programs (not education, software!), and what a really good ‘mailer’:
I’m forever getting cc’d on busy threads by well-meaning colleagues who want to loop me in on some discussion in which I have little interest. Maybe the initial group invitation to a dinner (that I’ll be out of town for) was something I needed to see, but now that I’ve declined, I really don’t need to read the 300+ messages that follow debating the best place to eat.
I could write a mail-rule to ignore the thread, of course. But mail-rule editors are clunky, and once your rule-list grows very long, it becomes increasingly unmanageable. Mail-rules are where bookmarks were before the bookmark site del.icio.us showed up — built for people who might want to ensure that messages from the boss show up in red, but not intended to be used as a gigantic storehouse of a million filters, a crude means for telling the computers what we don’t want to see.

Rael Dornfest, the former chairman of the O’Reilly Emerging Tech conference and founder of the startup AskSandy, once proposed an « ignore thread » feature (…) We need a million measures like this, adaptive systems that create a gray zone between « delete on sight » and « show this to me right away. »

Jason Kottke : Bringing back the housecall. A physician (medical doctor for you) with a capitalistic (as in the American Trinity, not as in K. Marx) and web approach to business. No relation to doctor web, sorry.

Dans la série des hôtels (plutôt des gites à chambre unique) ‘insolites’, voici la grue, le phare et le canot de sauvetage [flash].

BmyKey, site d’annonce immobilières gratuites mashup Google maps (bonne idée, mais base faible), a un blog dont les posts ‘ecologie’ sont de bone facture.