[Offtopic] Yahoo's unlimited email

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I guess that there is no right answer or correct method of working .. but
one thing is for certain, the rules and usage practices are changing.  We
live in interesting times. Many things about how I work have changed, many
things have not.  I dont think the number of e-mails that I send out has
really increased over the past 15 years, my work productivity will probably
only improve incrementally with more technology. Some things are cute such
as the move by Google to grab the middle ground, more RAM, more storage
space and more bandwidth.

I hope that we can stop occasionally to take a breath and think, what are we
'really' doing to make the world a better place to life in? Not just one
that caters for my needs but the poor, needy and hungry. I guess that is why
I am fascinated by open source and the OLPC projects. If I can inspire just
that much in my students, it has all been worth while.

Regards Roland

On 29/03/07, Stephen Digby <digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
> Email storage makes it hard to share.
> Google docs show the way - shared space where you can exchange docs AND
> versions of docs with tracking !
> One way alternative to make docs available to target audience without
> collaboration would be a version of a
> "picasa" type interface where you could have folders selectively published
> to the world or to "invitees".
>
> Google docs for collaboration, picasa docs for dissemination.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of victor rajewski
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2007 9:57 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Yahoo's unlimited email
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> On 3/28/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> > Yahoo are now offering unlimited email storage.
> > They say it is in response to a growing number of people that use
> > their email as cheap online storage.
> > Does anyone have a unit along the lines of "organising your life and
> > work flow through email"?
> > Are we still teaching File organisation with folders and mapped drives
> > and e-lockers when we should maybe be looking at "managing your files
> > with email"?
> > Where it was once "File- Save As" its now "Righto class email your
> > work to yourselves...."
>
> Surely this is purely because no-one (well, apart from apple, but no-one
> uses them anyway) has created an easy
> to use, workable online storage system? That said, I have a label (labels
> are a godsend compared to folders)
> in my gmail account called 'files' which gets automatically assigned to
> any messages I send to myself. Maybe
> instead of encouraging this ugly usage of the email system, we could just
> wait another year or two until the
> desktop and the internets converge?
> It'll happen real soon now, I promise.
>
> vik
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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