According to server logs, six percent of UC Berkeley email comes from Facebook. It's wild to see Facebook blow up the way it has in the past few months.

John Gruber takes a transaction-cost lite approach to explaining the idea of cognitive load. Not only do I agree that iCal requires too much user effort, I'd say it's darn near unusable.

The archive of the email list used to organize Wikileaks has been posted online. Wikileaks seems like a really interesting project, partly because a wiki seems like the wrong software solution for their project.

I'm often surprised to see most of the College of Communication staff and faculty still using Eudora. It looks like the newest version will be the last for OS X.

an extremely geeky history of email.

Google makes no assurances that your Gmail won't be deleted. I use it only for personal email and lists, but I were a freelance writer I might use it as my business address, which could be bad.

NYTimes story on students use of poor email etiquette with professors. As a student, it seems like the norms of the academy aren't keeping up with technological use.