Archive for April 2009
An article posted recently by Glyn Moody in ComputerWorldUK announced that email was dying. It’s an interesting assertion (which is why it shows up on my Interesting page), but one that I don’t agree with. Email is still going strong as far as I can tell. I get upwards of 100+ email a day with fewer than 1 junk message on average making it past my filters. And I don’t even classify myself as a power email user! Some people I know get at least double that volume and spend half their workday reading and responding to email. Again, this doesn’t sound like email is dying. What it does sound like is that email is broken or better yet our email habits are broken.
Email in most corporate environments has degenerated into a CYA system that sucks volumes of time and offers less and less value in the face of competition like IM or Facebook. In the golden age of handwritten notes writers tended to craft very thoughtful (more…)
