personal letters
Offline: the mailbox revisited
www.theverge.com
Let's celebrate the small successes: I can mail things now. I do it on a regular, multiple-times-a-week basis. I mailed two things today, in fact. If you'll recall, there was a time I could not mail things. But now I can mail things. I mail renewal slips for magazines,...
AOL's Alto adds visual organization to e-mail
www.pcworld.com
Attempting to stay relevant in a world where even Yahoo! gets more press, AOL on Thursday launched the beta version of its new cloud-based e-mail management tool, Alto. Alto won't replace Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, or any other e-mail services. Instead, the free HTML 5-based client manages your existing accounts...
Winston Churchill archive made available online
www.guardian.co.uk
Nearly a million documents, including drafts of famous war speeches and cigar bills, have been digitisedNearly a million documents that make up Winston Churchill's archive, ranging from school reports, drafts of his famous wartime speeches, to cigar bills, have been made instantly accessible to students, historians, and even politicians looking...
TNW Pick of the Day: Lettrs turns your iPhone into a personal writing desk, transcriber and post office
thenextweb.com
I don’t know about you, but I can count the number of times I pick up a pen each week on, maybe, 3 fingers. Birthday cards, signatures and perhaps the odd calendar reminder on the front of my fridge – that’s it. Everything else is keyboard-based. Handwriting is a dying...
TNW Pick of the Day: Lettrs turns your iPhone into a personal writing desk, transcriber and post office
Google Cultural Institute Adds 42 Exhibitions: Brings Stories Of D-Day, Apartheid, Holocaust Online
techcrunch.com
Google’s Cultural Institute expanded its work with museums, foundations and other archives to bring online 42 new historical exhibitions which help tell the stories of several major events taking place over the past century. Working with 17 partners on this latest effort, the online exhibitions debuting today include stories of Apartheid,...
The reaction to Viva Brother's break-up proves we love being part of a mob
www.guardian.co.uk
Viva Brother's split and Samantha Brick's Daily Mail article provoked torrents of abuse. Why? Can't we separate a person's worth from the quality of their workIt's a commonplace in consideration of art: separate the work from the person. Larkin's poetry is not diminished by the racist, sexist content of his...
Google's Cultural Institute brings history to life with online series of narrative exhibitions (Video)
9to5google.com
The Google Cultural Institute just launched an online series of narrative exhibitions that feature links to archival content stitched together to unearth different perspectives and stories of historical and life-changing events. The official Google blog elaborated: Today you can discover 42 new online historical exhibitions telling the stories behind major events of...
Google's Cultural Institute brings history to life with online series of narrative exhibitions (Video)
Finland postal service to launch “Open, Scan and Email” trial
thenextweb.com
Finland’s postal service, Itella, is to trial a new service which will see traditionally mailed letters opened and their contents scanned and emailed to recipients.The new system will initially operate on a voluntary basis only and is part of a drive to reduce CO2 emissions and cut staffing costs across...
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