There is one thing I have to admit Posterous has taught me and that is that email can be a powerful medium. I spend a lot of time in email even if I don't realize it and usually always have my Gmail window open.
Anyways, I enjoy reading the Economist, but it's quite difficult to figure out how much of the magazine is left other then a wild guess so I wrote an
Economist Mailer Bot which essentially sends out a bunch of emails (one email per article) based on a cron schedule that you set (careful if you set it too soon your'll get a lot of duplicates).
The nice thing about this is that you can see you progress through your article queue (especially if you use filters) as well as being able to read the articles on my iPhone email client when on Bart. Yay, no need to write an app.
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