Archive for the 'E-mail' Category
Microsoft experimenting with a pause button for incoming e-mail
August 19th, 2008Webware - “Microsoft Office Labs has launched a new product called E-mail Prioritizer that will not only sort through your in-box to figure out what’s important, but also give you an honest-to-goodness pause button in case you want to escape an Exchange server e-mail avalanche.”
Looking Good in Email
December 16th, 2007Reid Goldsborough - “Despite the availability of video (at the high end) and texting (at the low end), email remains the most common form of one-to-one internet-based communication, particularly in business settings.”
A “How to do it good” piece (via)
Long Live Spam
November 24th, 2007Jon Swartz - “Why, in 2007, is spam worse than ever? Let exasperated consumers count the ways: PDF spam. MP3 spam. Pump-and-dump spam. E-card spam.” (via)
In The US, Email Is Only For Old People
November 18th, 2007Some discussion over on Slashdot (via)
E-mail Q&A’s
November 3rd, 2007A bunch of them from the NYT.
More on E-mail
October 6th, 2007Daniel Goleman - “The advantage of a phone call or a drop-by over e-mail is clearly greatest when there is trouble at hand. But there are ways in which e-mail may subtly encourage such trouble in the first place.”
It’s Email Overload Day
August 27th, 2007WSJ - “Thanks to the avalanche of messages they receive every day, many professionals and office workers say they suffer from email overload. It doesn’t have to be that way.”
Dealing With Email
August 27th, 2007Sarah Milstein - “It’s unfashionable to admit these days, but 14 years after getting my first account, I still like email. Of course, the volume is crushing, and so lately, I’ve been experimenting with email reduction. I’m getting good results with two key concepts that hardly anyone talks about and that focus on your sending [...]
R.I.P E-mail: Take 2
July 25th, 2007The Independent: “It was the 250 e-mails a day that finally sent Darren Lennard, managing director of the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort, over the edge. At the end of a particularly bad afternoon in the City of London, he took his BlackBerry from his silk-lined pocket, saw the familiar screen full of new messages, and [...]
E-mail RIP…Again
July 24th, 2007Textually: “Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead”