May 10
I was listening to a podcast today and the guest on the episode was talking about how everyone complains about spam but no one complains about junk mail (physical mail). Minutes later, I pulled up to my mail box just to find it was full of lots of junk mail that I threw right into the trash can when I walked in the door. I thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a ‘Do not junk mail’ list that could be given (or possibly even sold) to businesses that send out junk mail, just like there’s a ‘Do not call’ list that telemarketers have to abide by? Both parties would benefit from such a list — the consumers ’cause they don’t have to deal with junk mail and the business because they can save on print and postage expenses.
Anyone heard of such a service?
May 10
Before I was in jr high, everyone used tapes to listen to music. But as time passed, CD’s rapidly became the preferred form of media. However, because I never owned a car with a CD player and because I didn’t really listen to music very much, I never bought CD’s. In fact, I don’t think I’ve bought more than five CD’s my entire life — I just didn’t care that much to listen to music… until now. With the popularity of digital music and mp3 players like the iPod, I’m listening to tunes of my choice everytime I hop into my car as well as listening to podcasts. So, in a way, it paid off to not embrace CD’s because had I done so, I would have a bunch of CD’s piled up that I would never use (ok, so I could rip them and put them on my iPod but it would all be old stuff that I’ve heard a million times). Anywho…