[Web4lib] Mobenzi > Mobile-Phone-Based Empowerment

[Dobbs, Aaron]

Fwiw,

Setting up email filters to enforce one's personal preferences is relatively easy in today's email clients (even Outlook). 

The answer, just like politics, is local - in this case, use filters to manage your email & handle what you get according to your own personal preferences.

I have Gerry's patterned-punctuation-heavy emails end up in their own folder & (when I have time) I go through them trying to suss out the content from the punctuation noise.

Asking for a decade-and-more of past practice to be thrown out the window (and imply that the loose list rules should be rigidly enforced) feels silly as I merely type it. This step feels far more self-centered than community-centered.

I humbly submit that neither Walt nor Gerry need change their WEB4LIB posting practice; we, the list members, need to use our available technology to improve our reading experience.

-Aaron
:-)'


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Campbell, James (jmc)
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:41 AM
> To: web4lib
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Mobenzi > Mobile-Phone-Based Empowerment
> 
> I'd be sorry to see the Cites & Insights announcements go.  Signing up
> for a separate announcement list is one more thing to remember to do.
> 
> I find announcements generally a valuable part of this list. I find
> some of Gerry's announcements valuable, recently particularly those
> about new smartphone interfaces and apps, but I agree with many of the
> other writers: he just sends too many of them.  My delete finger gets
> tired.  And I also probably miss some things that would interest me
> because frankly I do tend to delete his posts more quickly than some
> others.
> 
> Andrew has done the right thing, cut through the controversy and come
> up with a constructive alternative, no matter how he got there. I'd be
> very happy to get a weekly list of links to blog posts.
> 
>       - Jim Campbell
> 
>       Digital Access Librarian | Librarian for German
>       University of Virginia Library | Charlottesville, VA 22904-4112
> 
>       513 Alderman | campbell at virginia.edu | 434-924-4985
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Walt Crawford
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:38 AM
> To: Andrew Hankinson
> Cc: web4lib
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Mobenzi > Mobile-Phone-Based Empowerment
> 
> I feel the need to offer two comments:
> 
> 1. There is no such thing as a weekly digest of Cites & Insights
> emails.
> Cites & Insights is a monthly ejournal (sometimes slightly more than
> monthly), and I *currently* send an announcement of each issue to
> Web4Lib.
> It's not at all an aggregation of blog posts. (Andrew may be thinking
> of
> Current Cites--but, in fact, that's also monthly and not a "digest" or
> aggregation of blog posts.)
> 
> 2. Since there's a dislike for announcements--one I partially share--
> I'll
> remove Web4Lib from the monthly announcement list. If you want to be
> informed of new issues of Cites & Insights, sign up for my blog (Walt
> at
> Random, http://walt.lishost.org) or the single-purpose announcement
> blog
> (C&I Alerts, http://cical.blogspot.com). I was going to *ask* whether I
> should remove the Web4Lib announcement, but it's probably the right
> thing to
> do.
> 
> -walt crawford-
> 
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Andrew Hankinson
> <andrew.hankinson at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > Agreed. "Just use the delete key" isn't a real solution. Maybe Gerry
> could
> > aggregate his blog posts and send a digest out weekly, similar to the
> > "Cites
> > & Insights" e-mails.
> >
> > Gerry: would that be an acceptable compromise?
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Matthew Zimmerman <
> > Matthew.Zimmerman at utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > >From a constructive criticism point of view, I would read your
> emails or
> > > blog posts more often Gerry if there wasn't such information
> overload.
> > Like
> > > others, I get your updates each day, sometimes multiple times a day
> from
> > at
> > > least three different sources (this list, my Facebook email, and my
> gmail
> > > account which receives updates from Facebook). Sadly I just ignore
> them
> > now,
> > > perhaps to my loss, but when you see so many updates it becomes
> white
> > noise.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Matthew Zimmerman
> > > Manager
> > > Digital Services and Technology Planning
> > > UT Southwestern Medical Center Library
> > > Tel: 214-648-4873
> > >
> > > matthew.zimmerman at utsouthwestern.edu
> > > www.utsouthwestern.edu/library
> > >
> > >
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