I have in mind a post entitled 'Is RSS the Email of the Blogosphere'. The idea being that email is horribly under supported, even 300 years after it first was used. One of the key issues with email is the lack of search in nearly every client out there. Actually, I don't mean lack of search (unless I'm talking about the *&^% Microsoft office web interface) but actually the lack of indexed search. This all changed in a big way when Google launched gmail - they really shook up the email client interface and did many things right.
Unfortunately, I guess they forgot about stability. Gmail was down last night and seems to be down now (interpolating, I'm guessing that it has been down all night).
Never mind, perhaps I'll look at using the new Yahoo email that everyone is talking about. Oops - my browser (meaning, in this case, my OS) is not supported.
Who's for HotMail?
As for the 'Is RSS the Email of the Blogosphere' post - feed readers are, IMHO, as broken as email clients. There are lots of things they need to get right and are still having problems with (e.g. the duplication of posts in Bloglines). A post for another day perhaps.
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