Scoble is thrilled with his Outlook ‘magic folder’ blogging tool. It’s so easy, though, that he worries about making a mistake.
I imagine a day when I accidentally drop something in there that I wasn’t supposed to. I wonder how it’d treat DRM’d email? Hmmm, we should try that out! (Execs here often send around DRM’d email to keep employees from forwarding it to the press or our friends).
DRM = Digital Rights Management. Email is famous for being forwarded and/or sent inappropriately, so most companies only send bland announcements around if there is the tiniest bit of information which doesn’t belong outside the firewall. Execs, especially, must think about this all the time. Microsoft, of course, has rueful years of experience — and stacks of legal bills — from the promiscuity and longevity of email. So it makes sense that an Outlook (Exchange?) feature I had never heard about is the ability to ‘lock’ email so it cannot be forwarded.
I’d like to know more, but have to go catch up on the TiVo’ed Survivor. Good Friday, indeed!