scr.im: Convert your email to a URL
The other day I wrote about a site that converts your email address into a graphic so spammers can’t sweep your site.
This tool, with the unfortunate name of scr.im, converts your email address into a simple URL, and people who want to write you have to pass a simple test to show they’re human. Kinda cool, pretty clever and, best of all, completely free.
scr.im « Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.
StopForwarding.Us: Send a polite note to stop the forwarding madness
I’m not going to say who in my circle of friends and family is guilty, but SOME OF YOU drive me nuts! You forward emails about sick children who just want postcards, friendship poems with angels and hearts, political puffery from your favorite radicals and pictures of cute bunnies and kittens.
StopForwarding.Us is a free service that allows you to send a private, polite and anonymous note to the sender to let her know to think before forwarding. I actually like the bunnies and kittens, but the friendship poems with email angels? Ergh!
Here’s an excerpt from the letter:
Please do not forward chain letters, urban legends, potentially offensive jokes, videos or photos without being asked or first receiving permission.
If you find something that you want to pass on and you genuinely think the recipient will enjoy it then forward it to that person only (not in an email blast to all your friends and family) and include a personal note about why you enjoyed it and why you think they will too.
Nicely done, don’t you think? Please forward this link to everyone you know. (Just kidding).
StopForwarding.Us | Politely and anonymously ask them to stop forwarding you junk email
Posterous: Can blogging get any easier?
This free tool falls smack dab into the “If Only I Had Known” category. It’s an instant “Beth Favorite.”
Posterous is the easiest blogging tool I’ve ever seen. You simply email post@posterous.com, and they post what you’ve emailed. You can then claim a site of your own and keep posting to it.
It even adds your pictures, videos, documents… anything you attach to the email.
I also hooked it up to post to my Twitter account, and I can make it work with WordPress as well.
I’m feeling a little dizzy with joy right now.
Posterous – The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email..
