Tag: Post
In defense of email (just think of the alternative)
Another day, another story about someone deciding to "quit" email. It seems it's very stressful, getting all these messages, and apparently this is a feeling "everyone" shares. Oh really? Yes, I know what it's like to have thousands of…
Eight of the best indie iPad magazines – Trvl, Letter to Jane, Hoodgrown, POST
Written by Elisabeth Edvardsen Up until now it has been tricky for small or indie publishers (as we like to call them ) to produce iPad magazines. However, easy to use content management systems, falling technology costs and the massive…
RUMOUR: Post Office to launch mobile network?
Ahh the Post Office. A British Institution, but increasingly outdated these days? I haven’t heard the phrase “snail mail” in a good long time. In an effort to stave off the dinosaur accusations, the Guardian reckon that the Post Office are soon to launch a mobile phone service to add to their broadband and home phone packages…
Humans have Postsecrets, Lolcats have Lolsecretz…
Meet Lolsecretz, Shiny Towers’ favourite new external blog. Like a complicated bastard child belonging to I Can Has Cheezburger and Postsecret, it features pictures of lolcats with their personal secrets dished out to the prying world’s eyes.
If you’ve managed to find…
Opinion: Stamp out striking posties with email
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
For those outside the UK, the reason for this rant won’t mean much but the wider implications affect us all wherever we live. We’re currently in the grip of a nationwide wildcat postal strike in Britain and it’s started to get me more steamed up than that kettle you use to open your partner’s letters.
And it got me thinking, what’s the point of post anyway now we have email. I’ve had a pile of stamps sitting on my desk for months.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for workers rights, fair pay for a fair day and all that, and I love my new postie, he’s very friendly and helpful. But the sooner everyone switches over to electronic delivery and snail mail dies off, the better life will be…
