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How to manage "bacn"
People continue to wonder how to manage their e-mail inboxes. Now we're faced with an e-mail bitstream with a new buzzword, "bacn". From the Washington Post:
"bacn"--the misspelling is intentional--has become a popular term of art for the automatically generated notifications from legimate, non-spam sites. BuzzFeed offers this concise definition:
"Bacn describes the things you signed up for but that still feel like clutter in your inbox: Email lists, Facebook notifications, Google alerts."
Users - in this case, early-adopter geeks - are wondering what to do: How can we fix this problem of increasing bits - perhaps with better tools? More technology? Well, perhaps.
But a better long-term solution is to learn the skills of managing one's bits so that any bitstream, at any volume, is manageable. That's what Bit Literacy teaches.
(thanks, bb)
With bit literacy, there is no bacn!
I can attest to Mark's claim. His new book does indeed help us deal with... errr... ummm ... "bacn bits."
(Mark, you can totally use that in the second edition of Bit Literacy. I'll settle for a mention in the back pages. And a signed copy. And a lifetime pass to Gel.)