New friend notifications on LinkedIn, weekly event newsletters, twitter updates… the list goes on. Automated e-mail updates find a way to our inboxes. They present a dilemma. Suscribe to too many webservices and you may soon find that such updates are clogging your inbox, just like spam. They are unlike spam in a way because at some point you want to read them, just not right now. Computer geeks have come up with a term for this kind of troublesome “non-spam spam” : bacn (pronounced bacon). As in, bacn is better than spam but still cloggs your inbox. The term has been picked up by several bloggers since it was mentioned at a conference.