Down With E-mail (Reprise)

November 17th, 2005

I’m not going to go off on an anti-e-mail rant again (those seem fruitless), but I want to share two articles that I’ve read over the past two days; one sent via Meebo from Rochelle Hartman and the other came via Aggie.

Rochelle showed me this article from the BBC about the leader of Live8 hating e-mail:

“Mr Geldof told a conference in London that e-mails “give a feeling of action, which is a mistake”. He told delegates that what workers achieve each day will be linked to the number of e-mails they ignore. He explained that the “doing part” of a job is proportionate to the amount of e-mails you do not answer. “E-mails get in the way of serious consideration of what you want to do,” Mr Geldof said.”

And this article from Discover, which has more to do with “Infomania” than e-mail.

“We have vastly more information at our fingertips than ever before but less time to make sense of it.

So, it’s not just me. I’m just sayin’.

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