Michael Gracie 

Unless you are watching college hoops, playing with the kids, waxing the vintage auto, balancing the checkbook, vacuuming the rug, fly fishing, playing fetch with the dog, sharing a beautiful mountain sunset with a loved one, smoking a fine cigar, taking a backcountry hike, reading a classic novel, [UPDATE INSERTED AT THE REQUEST OF A [...]

Hell = golf course From betting on the game when the other team doesn’t show… Bridgewater Associates say financial losses from the credit meltdown will hit $1.6 trillion. That means we’re just a few pitches into the second inning in this mess. (h/t Paul Kedrosky) In 2008, autumn seems to be coming early (and looking [...]

Think you might be sick of email? You’re not alone either.

Google bought another: first FeedBurner, and now Postini. I say another because these are both Mobius/Foundry Group/Brad Feld/Ryan McIntyre related companies – and congratulations are surely well deserved. I won’t comment on what Google should do with Postini – Fred Wilson has already done that, and I’m not particularly “spam inclined”. But I will say [...]

This is supposed to be pretty simple, and I’ve even set up a category for such items – a nice little way to post notes/thoughts when away from the big screen. The account is set, as is the cron. But when posting, the body of the mail always gets stripped out – only the subject [...]

Saying that email is soon to face it’s worldly demise is like saying “everything that will be invented has been invented.” If spam, which now represents the vast majority of email, is going to die soon, then we might as well shut down the instant messaging networks, the “blogosphere” (whatever that is), all VoIP lines, [...]

Someone hacked into Linkin Park rocker Chester Bennington’s email and phone records. The guy was caught. And…nobody really cares (which is half the reason I held off). He isn’t Paris Hilton after all (although I am curious to hear whether this was again T-Mobile).

TechWeb looks at ways to lock down your email client, and even I caught a few good pointers. Generic stuff like using plain text and anti-virus plugins are a given, but I never thought about turning off the preview pane. Anyway, good directions for how to turn features on/off for the popular clients. Have fun.

According to a study just released by email deliverability services provider ReturnPath, 97% of all IP addresses are worthy of being blocked. Under ReturnPath’s scoring methodology, less than one percent of emailers are worthy of a “most likely to get delivered” badge. That whole “email losing clout” thing is starting to make sense. I doubt [...]

If email is losing its clout as a communications medium, does that mean Bill Gates was just a little early with his prediction?