Down with e-mail (take 197)
August 19th, 2004From an article entitled: “Preventing drowning in e-mail”:
“…That means the main desktop computer workspace for many employees is the inbox, and the inbox is an undifferentiated column of e-mail: urgent assignments from the boss; hotel receipts from business trips; correspondence from colleagues on long-term initiatives; notes from spouses requesting a milk pickup on the way home; feedback from supervisors on ongoing projects; reminders about the company picnic; and various dubious business and other propositions, or spam. The inbox has gotten too big,” Gruen said. “You come back from lunch and you’re almost afraid to check your inbox. It’s like getting a brain dump from someone with attention deficit disorder.”
No need to put my two cents in here other to continue my ongoing rant that e-mail is has not kept up with the continuous flow of the web and that it will eventually die out (I can only hope).
This link comes courtesy of David Teten, who preaches to the choir (of which I am probably the lonely tenor):
“I’m disappointed that the author, Robert Weisman, does not discuss the value of tools like wikis and blogs to reduce our cultural dependence on email.”