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Yes, but...
Did he add Mojo to his holidays?
Nope
Hi Brett. Nope. I just rescued this email from my junk mail folder, so I missed the holiday Mojo. Maybe they'll offer it for New Years?
ADHD Alert!
I know and like Steve, but he seems overcaffeinated on this one. Anyone who sends him mail better think and type in tweets, eh?
I'm on that list too and mail from Patrick and Murray's PR lackeys is the only source I have to touch the Page Down key to assess. I can do that in about a second per email.
Bless Steve for making me feel like less of an alter kaker.
I don't want to press page down because of thier poor design
The point is that the email is distributed like it's a letter that's sent out in the mail.
Like I said in the post, I've never seen anything like it.
And to follow up on your suggestion, yes, the Governor should be on twitter. Not his PR person, Deval Patrick himself should be.
Don't wait
Good luck with that. He managed to blog all of once or twice this year. twitter, hardy har.
The Governor should be on
The Governor should be on Twitter?
"I've appointed a new chair and new member to Board of Higher Education"
"I just nominated an esteemed Superior Court justice to the SJC"
"OMG Vitale indicted WTF"
Thanks but no thanks. He's the Commonwealth's chief executive, not a teenager. Complex state policy should not be made (or relayed) in one-sentence stubs. You get a subject header on each email. Is even that too much to read at once?
I have to agree, actually
I have a bit of a peeve when people put so much stuff at the top that I can't see the message in the preview window...
Twitter is for twits.
How annoying, how many
How annoying, how many emails did he send to you in the same minute??? I see at least a few.
I try really hard to stay off political lists, even though I am a very political person, because none of these people knows how to use the list properly. Somehow Obama hunted me down, and now Im getting daily updates from Obama, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton and so on and so forth. Am I supposed to feel all warm and fuzzy that John Podesta has taken the time out of his day to formulate some lame mass emailing and Im lucky enough to be on the list??? I have a friend who gets it three times everytime they send one out, he loves Obama but he hates it.
Its like once they get your email its a license to spam.
I'd find this annoying too.
I'd find this annoying too. It's one of those technology "fails" that make me cringe. Similar to using "Comic Sans"... the creator/sender's intentions might be good, but you just can't take them seriously.
Oh, so you're one of those people
Who wants to ban Comic Sans?
You think you're joking...
A goodly number of forms issued by state agencies are in comic sans. For the life of me, I can't fathom why someone thought this was appropriate. The Dept of Mental Health self-preservation checklist is in comic sans. GEE WHIZ! KNOWING TO EXIT THE BUILDING IN THE EVENT OF A FIRE SURE IS FUNNY!
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Wacky Walls Too
Ah, those wacky mental-health folk...I recall years ago taking a chum to the Lindemann Mental Health building on Staniford Street. It's worse than City Hall in layout. There are sudden floor shifts numerically. One number floor doesn't necessarily follow another. Plus, the rooms and walls are not all rectangular. I subsequently heard from a doctor that a running joke is that if you weren't crazy when you went in, you might be coming out.
it's not spam (at least it shouldn't be!)
I just left a comment for Steve on the original post ( http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2008/12/governor... ), so I won't duplicate. But, I did want to point out that these emails aren't spam. They're an email distribution of the traditional press release to the traditional media (newspapers, television, radio) that our press team has added bloggers to. They look the way they do because that's what the original audience expected. Though, as I said in my other post, I think it's time to change that since most people are probably looking at these on mobile devices and don't need to print and distribute like 'the olden days'.
These are also available via RSS on our site - www.mass.gov/governor. I'd love to just have everyone subscribe and not have to email these out at all...but I don't think everyone's quite ready for that yet.