This is a test to show Shellie, my wife, that I can post to my weblog via email and she should pay attention to her IM's rather than Christmas shop online at work.

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I've been thinking about this whole email-to-blog feature. For a desktop application, it seems kind of redundant. Why would I email myself just to post something that I can post directly? From that perspective, it does seems a little funny. (Then again, I am posting this entry via email because the whole synchronization thing still hasn't been solved and implemented.) On the other hand, if the email-to-blog feature could be tweaked, you could do a lot of interesting things with it. Alerts via email, for instance. Have the email account monitor look for different subjects which would then trigger different kinds of events. These events could be a simple as popping up an alert screen that says "Your late for your next meeting. Get your butt in here. Sincerely, Your Boss". This is akin to IM, but would be mainly used for broadcasts rather than two way interactions. More complex interactions could be implemented such as assembling content and responding back to you, creating a digital assistant. This digital assistant idea could tie in very nicely with the whole knowledge logging concept. Just some ravings over lunch.

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This is my first post via email. I sure hope it works. Radio is turning out to be quite the flexible and compelling little tool. Once released, I am very excited about it's possibilities for consumers and businesses. There is no doubt in my mind that it is going to spark a new revolution of personal publishing on the Internet. The challenge is going to be in interconnecting everyone using Radio.

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