on 2012-09-03 9:15 John Sessoms wrote
I gave Staples my email address for some reason & they send me a "coupon"
almost every day & their sales flyer once a week. I could "unsubscribe", but
that's actually more work than just hitting the delete key. I'd do it anyway if
they hadn't once sent me a "coupon" that saved me a little money on something I
was actually going to buy anyway and I'm mildly curious to see if it will ever
happen again.
add up a year's worth of time you spend deleting an email every day, after
first reading the email to see whether there might be a coupon you can use; if
you unsubscribe *once* you can have that time back; does that one coupon make
up for it?
The best use I've found for Google is looking up words "I thought" I knew the
meaning, but now I'm not quite sure"; historic persons and using the maps just to find
out where something is.
i do a huge amount of research with google, some of it is even productive;
beyond the search engine, the google services i actively use are:
* maps (to which i contribute),
* google books,
* the old usenet postings absorbed into google groups,
* a google group i started to saving a mailing list when a sponsor abandoned it,
* gmail for some unimportant stuff,
* the google custom search i set up for one client,
* my newsreader's sync with google reader,
* google alerts for persistent searches on special topics,
* the google voice number i use for craigslist transactions,
* the google docs i share with colleagues and use for some notes,
* google analytics for a few sites,
* google offers seems to list my favorite watering holes often,
* feedburner has helped me show people how to make email digests out of RSS
feeds,
* the blogspot site i set up for this list's members' feeds,
* chrome i use whenever i feel compelled to use a flash-based site
(services i've tried but didn't really felt gave me much value are Google+,
Orkut, Picassa, google checkout ...)
these are indeed valuable resources to me, but yikes! it does unsettle me to
have all of the information behind those activities in the hands of a single
entity, so i pay attention and actively consider how much to put into google —
not my main email, not my calendar, cloud notes, music, photos, and especially
not my friendships
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