Email Lottery of the Day

In the latest online permutation of the pen-and-paper chain letter, a new site called The Listserve randomly chooses one person per day from among its 14,000-and-growing email subscribers to share a self-penned essay with the rest of the listserve. This is either a cool global experiment... or a slickly packaged subscription version of the front page of Reddit. [boingboing]