Email addresses are the coin of the realm nowadays in political campaigning. More political efforts — whether candidates, partisan groups, or advocacy organizations — ask for your email address than probably any other piece of contact information. And email addresses matter — at least, people are starting to suspect they do. Recently, I heard a [...]
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You’re doing it wrong: pet peeves in Web authoring
I usually try to be fairly gentle in my blog posts. Well, this one’s a full-out rant. And it does name names, but only for purposes of demonstration, not public shaming.
By dint of what I do, I spend a lot of time working on the Web. Here are some of my pet peeves:
No links
People, it’s [...]
Wanted: standardized behavior for email list unsubscribe
I subscribe to a lot of email lists. I mean, a lot. In addition to the lists I’ve opted in to, there’s the grey area of lists I “joined” (or was added to) without much conscious effort on my part, e.g. because I filled out a petition, went to a conference, or bought something.
Email is [...]
Google doesn’t like plus-addressing, sometimes
Google, known for offering plus-addressing to users of Gmail, doesn’t actually support sending to plus addresses with its Alerts service.
Finally, the illusion of Google’s perfect single-mindedness as an organization is cracked. At last, one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing!
To be fair, Alerts is still in beta. (Hey, it’s only been around for [...]
