while i applaud the general spirit of the blog post, cringely's examples don't exactly make sense. on the one hand he is admits to signing up for 'spam' newsle

while i applaud the general spirit of the blog post, cringely's examples don't exactly make sense. on the one hand he is admits to signing up for 'spam' newsletters to keep a pulse (is this because it's useful or more obsessiveness?). but he also says that too much spam makes email not useful. then he says that he will never sign up for third party apps on facebook. what about the pulse? what if they're useful? i don't get what his personal experience is trying to say, but i do think clogging is an interesting phenomena. companies make a lot of crap and are often motivated by getting user attention and thus the bottom line, rather than truly helping users. then again, different users want different things. one man's newsletter is another man's spam.