A Place of Honor

One of the great aspects of this medium is it can reach so many people around the world.

One of the downsides is that most of them will never give you the feedback that validates what you do. Having a great idea is even better when you know it touched someone or helped them.

I wrote a piece awhile back about my homegrown system for dealing with email overload: the Dr. Pepper system.

Check this out from my tracking log:

Look at that Entry Page:  file:///E:/Outlook/…

That’s a locally-stored file.  Let’s look at that in depth:

Someone liked it well enough to file it away. Based on nothing but conjecture, it would appear this person filed away an Outlook message, likely from an email subscription to Occam’s RazR. Or maybe just saved the link as a local shortcut. (My first thought was that it was on a flash drive, which might make sense for someone using public computers at a college.)

Still, any way you slice it, this isn’t like the many who come in on Google Image searches for Live Nude Girls or Chocolate Covered Cockroaches. This is someone who saw enough value in what I wrote they saved it. And not like those RSS Ninjas who save 40 links without blinking.

I’m honored. And that’s enough for me.