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July 02, 2004
Email as a way of life
Norman Walsh, of DocBook fame, was at JavaOne trying to get his email over a broadband wireless connection. It turned out he had so much spam he probably wouldn't be able to download only 28 hour's worth of backlog email before his laptop battery went dead.
Right after the passage I quoted from Understanding Media this morning, Noam Chomsky, some time between 1993 and 1996, laments the fate of his colleagues whose work has begun to suffer because they're too connected, spending too much time doing email.
At work, we theoretically spend no more than a few percent of our time handling email. Yeah, right. Start counting it up. For me yesterday it was 1/3 of the day. And I'm a nobody.
Posted by Mark at July 2, 2004 02:43 PM