{"id":11463,"date":"2007-08-22T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/22\/bacon-bacon-bacon.html"},"modified":"2007-08-22T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T22:30:28","slug":"bacon_bacon_bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/bacon_bacon_bacon.html","title":{"rendered":"Bacon-bacon-bacon!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"spam\" <\/div>\n

Doyce notes the New Slang of the Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Spam <\/strong>= Email you don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n

Bacon <\/strong>= Email you want, but not right now (google alerts, newletters, mailing list messages, etc).<\/p>\n

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And, yes, as he suggests I’ll argue that bacon<\/em>, per se, is rarely something I don’t want right now, but bacon<\/em>, in this context, is indeed a problem.  It’s “information overload.”<\/p>\n

So, for example, looking at my Google inbox — and bearing in mind that I’ve tossed most of the spam that wasn’t already caught, I have:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Some ads\/announcements from companies (e.g., Amazon) that I actually buy things from (so it’s not really spam).<\/li>\n
  2. Some e-mail from some friends\/family that’s very low priority to read.<\/li>\n
  3. Some newsletters\/mailing lists I do want to get around to reading, but not right now.<\/li>\n
  4. An update from a site about the quality of Katherine’s school.<\/li>\n
  5. Various e-mail exchanges from people I do want to talk with and would like to pay attention to as soon as updates come in.<\/li>\n
  6. Some bill notifications that I need to review at some point, but not right now.<\/li>\n
  7. Quite a few other things I want to look at, but not right now.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The problem is, how do I get the stuff I really want to read (let’s call it the fillet<\/strong><\/em>, since we’re on a meat kick immediately visible and read, without letting the bacon <\/em>sink into obscurity such that it never gets read.  That’s an extension of the problem of cutting out the spam <\/em>but not the bacon<\/em>, but it’s even more immediate. <\/p>\n

    The fact is, I get more e-mail that probably should be read than I can (or want to) read.  That’s a personal time management issue, to some degree.  But it’s also a reality.  What I need is a personal assistant that’s quite a bit brighter than a spam filter or folder filter to go through and prioritize my e-mail for me.  Unfortunately, GMail’s filters (and pretty much any other e-mail system I’ve seen that works on a keyword basis) isn’t up to that.  We need a mail system that watches behavior and draw conclusions:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Dave reads mail from these people as soon as it comes in.  Make it high priority.<\/li>\n
    2. This mail gets left around for a while.  Make it medium priority.<\/li>\n
    3. Dave reads this e-mail, sooner or later, before it gets deleted. <\/li>\n
    4. Dave saves this e-mail for a while, but eventually deletes it.<\/li>\n
    5. E-mail with these subject lines gets read faster than e-mail with these subject lines.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      etc.<\/p>\n

      Heuristics.  Bayesian filters (in reverse).  Whatever.  We need smarter software (or smarter people).<\/p>\n

      UPDATE<\/u>: According to BoingBoing<\/a>, it’s actually “bacn.” Don’t ask me why — I guess it sounds 1337.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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