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Why I Made Emailchemy: Matt Hovey is the developer behind Emailchemy, a highly capable email conversion tool that is able to convert between a wide range of email applications and services. In this post, he writes about how his desire to move mail between the variety of systems of his school and work institutions that employed different mail applications resulted in his development of Emailchemy.

Fighting Comment Spams - There Gotta Be A Better Way: HostingFu writes about current anti-comment spam options for weblogs and discusses his use of the up and coming service called Mollom which has replaced Akismet on HostingFu.

Preoccupations - I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip: New York Times story about an IBM employee living in the Canary Islands, but reporting to mangers in the US and the Netherlands, successfully transitioned to largely communicating and collaborating via social software. He said this has resulted in an 80 percent reduction of the number of email messages he receives in a week.

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