The Primary
Sources
for Disinfotainment Today
for Disinfotainment Today
HOW TO DO WHAT I DO
Go to all these sites and subscribe to their newsletter with the same unique email address. The lists come from folders in my current email, as of March 12, 2007, so now you know why I'm always behind and I'll get back to you. Each issue of Disinfotainment Today is created almost entirely by cutting and pasting within Outlook Express, with occasional forays into the WWWilderness to verify.
Go to all these sites and subscribe to their newsletter with the same unique email address. The lists come from folders in my current email, as of March 12, 2007, so now you know why I'm always behind and I'll get back to you. Each issue of Disinfotainment Today is created almost entirely by cutting and pasting within Outlook Express, with occasional forays into the WWWilderness to verify.
Have your email program redirect all that email to one folder called NEWS. Create subdirectories like the ones below, or just let them pile up every time you get your mail.
Start the new issue by forwarding the last issue,
then just replace the old stuff with new stuff from the NEWS folder.
The big stupid question you ask yourself before going
to the NEWS folder is "Since I can't possibly read all this, in what order will
I go through it?" Do it differently every time you look. Make it as random
as possible. How about by size, largest first? That gets you the most graphics.
Then alphabetically by subject. Then reverse chronologically by sender. Then
smallest first. Let the random element decide what gets your attention. Stop
when the issue gets to about 350KB, or when you simply can't stand it any
more. Never get to more than 10% or your head will explode and someone will have
to clean up.
Bartcop and Bartcop Entertainment don't have newsletters, the bastards, but you should go there anyway.
Most blogs don't have newsletters either. I've heard there are a lot of good ones. There's a reason I'm not a blogger.
Much of Disinfotainment Today comes from individuals, not mailing lists. You know who you are.
Plus, of course, every spammer in the galaxy, making real
news often indistinguishable from blather.
And that's all there is to it. Now you can put together your very own issue of Disinfotainment Today, kill me, take my place, and don't tell anyone, well, okay, maybe one.
- Michael Dare -
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