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They say there's an app for everything on the iPhone… unfortunately there is no app for spam filtering. Yes, I've figured out the whole "send your mail to Gmail and get it from there" thing… and after some tuning I think it might be a decent solution.

Regardless it has me thinking about how digital technology affects our daily lives, how we're transformed by it, and how some of our analog habits may be transposed by it. Case in point worry beads (Komboloi)… worry stones, your car keys, or whatever you tend to fidget with while you're thinking, contemplating, or just idle (not that there's every time to be idle in this day and age). I've found myself comparing the deleting of spam to this type of ritual fidgeting. The act of checking email itself is addicting enough, but the ability to do something useful (though futile) like deleting spam with a repetetive swipe of the finger makes it cross that digital-analog devide.

I'm working on compiling a series of these "Digital Transformation" comparisons for a personal project. If you have any that you've thought of, drop me a line.