Comments on: My Thinkernet column on tools to help you ignore stuff http://boingboing.net/2007/10/03/my-thinkernet-column.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 19:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: knodi http://boingboing.net/2007/10/03/my-thinkernet-column.html#comment-37411 knodi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-37411 Haha, well, I bet I can guess why nobody has figured it out yet- It's really, really hard! Spam is not quite a "solved problem" yet, and it's waaaay easier than trying to decide whether you intend to go to dinner with some friends based on other emails that include travel plans.... They're probably just trying to nail the most achievable goal first, before they move on to that <a href="http://www.answers.com/blue-sky&r=67">blue-sky</a> AI stuff. Haha, well, I bet I can guess why nobody has figured it out yet- It’s really, really hard!

Spam is not quite a “solved problem” yet, and it’s waaaay easier than trying to decide whether you intend to go to dinner with some friends based on other emails that include travel plans….

They’re probably just trying to nail the most achievable goal first, before they move on to that blue-sky AI stuff.

]]> By: SAE Miller http://boingboing.net/2007/10/03/my-thinkernet-column.html#comment-37437 SAE Miller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-37437 If someone has a 300 email thread on where to have dinner, then there might be bigger problems in your social circle than where to eat. If someone has a 300 email thread on where to have dinner, then there might be bigger problems in your social circle than where to eat.

]]> By: Mark Hurst http://boingboing.net/2007/10/03/my-thinkernet-column.html#comment-37303 Mark Hurst Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-37303 It's a very important idea that I hope software developers will pick up on soon. "Letting the bits go" is the only way to survive in what will become an even *more* saturated environment in coming years. It’s a very important idea that I hope software developers will pick up on soon. “Letting the bits go” is the only way to survive in what will become an even *more* saturated environment in coming years.

]]> By: Tuke http://boingboing.net/2007/10/03/my-thinkernet-column.html#comment-37619 Tuke Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-37619 Haha, I agree with the 300 people lunch conversation, but at the same time, there are a lot of... 'time-dependant' emails that accumulate--things like where Laura and I want to eat on Thursday or where Wednesday's meeting will be (etc, etc). Gmail does a beautiful job creating the message 'threads' (i think they call it) where the 7 emails that Laura and I pass back and forth Thurs morning will be tied together, and when you delete (or open/etc) one, they all delete (or etc). But I still have to delete every email about where Wed night's meeting will be... it would be cool if there was a way to have it delete itself (say, on day after the event). (..."this message will self-destruct in 30 seconds"...) The person creating the email will have to remember to set a delete date/time, and that time would have to be encoded with all the non-message-content-data (whatever that's called), and the email-program will have to be able to read that peice of data... but it should be possible. (I would consider to be a great feature, and if someone like google started using it, it would have the needed user-base.) Haha, I agree with the 300 people lunch conversation, but at the same time, there are a lot of… ‘time-dependant’ emails that accumulate–things like where Laura and I want to eat on Thursday or where Wednesday’s meeting will be (etc, etc). Gmail does a beautiful job creating the message ‘threads’ (i think they call it) where the 7 emails that Laura and I pass back and forth Thurs morning will be tied together, and when you delete (or open/etc) one, they all delete (or etc).
But I still have to delete every email about where Wed night’s meeting will be… it would be cool if there was a way to have it delete itself (say, on day after the event). (…”this message will self-destruct in 30 seconds”…) The person creating the email will have to remember to set a delete date/time, and that time would have to be encoded with all the non-message-content-data (whatever that’s called), and the email-program will have to be able to read that peice of data… but it should be possible. (I would consider to be a great feature, and if someone like google started using it, it would have the needed user-base.)

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