[Offtopic] Yahoo's unlimited email

Fri Mar 30 08:54:12 EST 2007

Suitably deep thoughts for the end of term ! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times

Can't see the link from Google to worry about helping the poor.  Google's platform seems to have already
achieved and have enormous potential to provide more free access to the world.  Free is pretty good support
for the "poor, needy and hungry" !

The next wonderful Google push which is causing competitors to go the same way is to offer full text
searchable digitisation online of ALL published text content in the world so that the poor and needy can
search and at least read part of any published doc...

The best thing that we could do to improve the conditions of the poor, needy and hungry in the world would be
to continue the undermining of international copyright and patent law which have grown over a few centuries in
the modern equivalent of the "fencing the commons" and in the process have "virtually" destroyed the belief in
and practice of freedom of information or technological progress for the "common good".

Holidays near !!!
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From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland
Gesthuizen
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2007 8:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [Offtopic] Yahoo's unlimited email

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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[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of victor rajewski
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On 3/28/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au  <mailto: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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