a great podcast on email productivity

I just caught up today with this show Tony Goodson did back in early December on TPN’s Productivity Show and it’s a corker, one of those shows I wish I had listened to with a pen and pad handy so I could take notes. If you struggle to get through your email like I do, then I recommend this show. Lots of great tips in it.
clipped from productivity.thepodcastnetwork.com

Today’s guest is Randall Dean, The Totally Obsessed Time Management PDA Email Guy, who specialises in training people in productivity, dealing with email overload, and using PDAs. Oh, and he attended David Allen training long before Getting Things Done, so he’s seen it evolve.

The Productivity Show #33 – Randy Dean (PDA Email Guy)

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Drag attachments into Gmail

I just stumbled across this FIrefox extension which allows you to drag and drop attachments into Gmail instead of having to search for them. Brilliant. I thought the recent update to Gmail allowed you to drag emails into folders? Can’t seem to get this working though. Any suggestions?
clipped from addons.mozilla.org

dragdropupload 1.5.23
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by Emanuele Ruffaldi

Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries. In some websites it allows to add new upload files: in Gmail is possible to drop the files directly over the…

Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries. In some websites it allows to add new upload files: in Gmail is possible to drop the files directly over the “Attach a file” link.

A Sidebar allows to drop files from a listing

Works with:

  • Firefox Firefox:
    1.0 – 2.0.0.*

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Will The True Dictator Please Stand Up?

Following on from my video this morning about “A War On Democracy”, here’s a good quote from a recent article by Robin Hahnel (a Professor of Economics at American University):

Only Americans who search out the alternative media discover that Hugo Chavez was elected President by a comfortable margin in 1998, survived an opposition-sponsored recall in 2004, and most recently was re-elected in December 2006 with more than 60% of the vote. International observers certified all three elections as fair and square. George Bush, on the other hand, was selected President by a partisan Supreme Court after losing the popular vote in 2000, and won re-election only because enough black voters in Ohio were disenfranchised by a partisan Republican official to keep the Buckeye State in the Republican column in 2004. Few observers believe Bush could survive a recall election today, but of course this basic element of democratic rule is not permitted by the US Constitution. Nonetheless, the only storyline ninety-nine percent of Americans hear remains: Hugo Chavez is a dictator and George Bush is the democratically elected leader of the free world.