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Thursday, September 27, 2007
I recently heard a story from a program manager of her debating (fighting) with her web developer about how she wanted to send more focused newsletters while he wanted to send fewer, more broad ones which in turn got me thinking about how e-mail has changed since it first started and what is really effective these days. In the "old" days I would have said he was right, people are overwhelmed with e-mails, reduce their load by giving them less to deal with but now I'd say she's absolutely right. These days people are conditioned to quickly scan subject lines
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Amazon just entered the digital music download fray and they've just set the gold standard. The price is right, the quality is great, and since it's straight MP3 you can use it on pretty much every digital music playing device ever made. Downloading Ministry's "Rio Grande Dub(ya)" was a snap and the required download manager is simple and unobtrusive. It may not be the closed-loop system of iTunes+iPod or Zune+Marketplace but it's close enough that I think a lot of people will dip their toes in the water, especially with the Amazon name behind it. To be fair emusic.com
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
One of my favorite uses for my Zune is listening to audiobooks and one of my greatest disappointments with the Zune was the lack of support for the Audible format. Audible's proprietary format has always been a thorn in my side because unless you're using a major MP3 player the chances of it supporting Audible are slim. I used to be able to work around this by converting the .aa format into straight .mp3, as it should be, but Audible seems to have patched that hole. Well, I can start listening to audiobooks once again because emusic.com is now offering them