In my in-box

[pegkerr]

Every day, besides emails from LiveJournal and SparkPeople, I receive emails from the chef at World Wide Recipes and the Word of the Day. I am slowly reading both Moby Dick and Bleak House for the first time by receiving small e-mails excerpts each day from DailyLit.

I receive daily Google Alerts on three subjects: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Jane Austen. You will often have to wade through a fair amount of trash (I have no interest whatsoever, in the endless discussion about videogames based on Lord of the Rings), but the alerts have helped me find some cool links on these subjects which interest me.

Several times a week, I receive e-mails from a frugality website, www.stretcher.com and MovieWatcher. I receive other periodic e-mails from Coldwater Creek, Cooking Light, and Prevention.

What do you see in your e-mail in box each day?

Comments

[harpie84.livejournal.com]

Great recommendations! I subscribed to Word of the Day and DailyLit.

My daily stuff would bore the paints off most people - InsideHigherEd and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Nothing fun :-)

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[splagxna.livejournal.com]

peg,

not any relation to your post, but i heard this piece driving home last night and thought of you (and your family) immediately! http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/02/22/PM200702224.html

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

The Writer's Almanac, by Garrison Keillor

Also (when it's running), Minstrels minstrels@yahoogroups.com, which is poetry with usually quite witty commentary.

An awful lot of what I check daily comes to me via RSS feeds, most of which I've set up at LJ to feed right into my friendslist.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I have tons of RSS feeds, too, quite a few of which I've set up myself.

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

It's such a complete switchover for me; when I was heavy into computing and design, listservs and BBSes were the thing. Now that I'm out of there, it's all RSS, and lordy, what a difference it makes. Genuinely well made technology, that.

[morganmalfoy.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you've heard of Google Reader, but that's what I use now. I used to set up the feeds, but Firefox and Google Reader make it so easy to check, it's my friends page for everything non-LJ. Also, it does NOT allow me to use blog checking as a way to waste time.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Tim Grey's DDQ (digital photo post-processing info), Stephen Wenger's Defensive Use of Firearms letter, The Register headlines, Slashdot summary, Administrative notices from Joel's twincitiescarry.com and my various websites.

Not every day, but frequently, I get NRA and NARAL (two lovely acronyms that go so well together) political posts, and Move-on.org, and HRC. Also Debian Linux security notices. Harris Poll and Zogby survey requests. Monthly, Bruce's Cryptogram.

A lot of stuff is filtered off into specialized mailboxes, but not things with just one or two posts a day.

[awallens.livejournal.com]

I get messages from LJ and spark people. I am subscribed to an astonishing variety of yahoogroups, mostly related to books and reading. I love the Tudor period in England so am subscribed to a group on that. I am reading Sister Carrie through the email service that lets you read it in pieces. For now, that's about it. On my LJ page, I get RSS feeds from CNN, the BBC, and Amnesty International.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

At work I get a daily sweep of venture capital news - deals closed, financing rounds announced, management changes and BOD appointments. It saddens me that I actually care about this stuff.

At home all I get is spam.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

Weekly, not daily: World Science.

Otherwise I avoid subscriptions because they are terrible distractions and I am easily distracted (and LJ is more than bad enough already.)

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

A Word a Day, 2 DailyLit books (Middlemarch and The Theory of the Leisure Class), political stuff from MoveOn, the NRDC, and the DSCC and other random Democrat things . . . I use a separate email address for the political stuff.

I adore DailyLit sooooo much, since I'm exactly in the situation of being able to check my email at work but not much else. The first book I read was Mansfield Park (I was embarrassed that I hadn't read it before).

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Interesting question. Daily only....

NYTimes.com
Star Tribune
Writer's Almanac--I'm not that interested in the historical part, but I like the poems.
Flylady.net assorted cleaning/organizing/self-esteem reminders.
Of course, livejournal comments.
MyComics comics page, which emails me only the comics I actually want to read.
Slate Magazine Culturebox, advice etc.
Warren Ellis' Bad Signal.
The Dear Reader email book club--right now I'm signed up for Mystery, Pre-publication, Science Fiction, Romance, and Non-Fiction.