Reason Number 567 to have a Weblog
December 23rd, 2004From an article in the New York Times titled, “E-Mail Doesn’t Take a Holiday“:
“Of the 1,000 e-mail messages he typically receives after a week off, 200 of them, he said, are spam. Another 150 are what he really hates: ‘chime-in’ e-mails, or messages copied to several people, each of whom replies with a thanks, a comment or an acknowledgment.”
When will we be able to scrap e-mail and use internal weblogs and RSS as communication tools? I hope that when Hallie is old enough to communicate online she will say to me, “Dad, you used to use e-mail in your company? That is soooo 2004.” Oh please, I hope she says that to me. Heck, I hope she IMs me with that statement. Or posts it to our internal family weblog. Or (for goodness sakes) tells me during dinner.
Another note. If you have over 500 e-mail messages waiting fo you after 2 weeks of vacation (when everyone else is supposedly on vacation too), there is something terribly wrong. What a waste of company time and resources.