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Are You a Bad Person?

David Smeigh emailed this link over to Debra and I—though Debra is quick to point out it was TO me and she was only CC’d—saying it reminded him of us.

I send 160 emails a day. Am I a bad person?

Of course reading this article forced me to go back and take a look at my email habits, which I sometimes feel can be a bit obscene. Take Monday of this week (and I should point out this week has not been one of the busiest in recent memory), I sent 55 emails between 9a and 5p. That’s significantly more than the InformationWeek blogger, but I only had a total of 107 recipients, averaging only about 2 recipients per note.

Not sure what all this tells us, but it is a bit interesting to evaluate the extent to which we are clogging up our colleague’s emailboxes… I think I’m okay.

Note to Self

“Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.”

Methinks I’m the statue today—and not just because I am moving slowly after a long (and not yet over) week.

(I really liked your email, Mary Ann. Thanks!)

The Future of Media?

One of the many daily feeds I read had an interested piece about an 8-minute video put together by the Museum of Media History. I just finished watching it for a second time and see it as undeniably plausible. It’s also pretty interesting in that it is written as a future history of media from the vantage of 2014 (after the “news wars of 2010″)…

EPIC (the evolving personal information onstruct) is the eventual amalgamation of such indsutry giants as Amazon.com, Google, Blogger.com and Friendster, and represents a guess about how we may be consuming media in 8-10 years.

Take a look. I’m curious what you think. (My favorite line: “In 2014, The New York Times has become a print-only newsletter for the elite and elderly.”)

No Wonder I’m an Idiot

Deb sent me this article; definitively proving why I am such an idiot. (Hint—it isn’t the pot part of this article.)

It does make some interesting points about feeling “tired and lethargic” from being constantly interrupted—I can see that. Since reading the article, I’ve tried to be very conscious about not interrupting my workflow each time I hear the new email chime and I have increased my productivity twelve-fold. Okay, not really, but it has seemed to have an impact.

Also interesting to me that this research was sponsored by HP, which has long touted it “always on internet infrastructure;” I wonder if the gentleman who signed that research check still has a job…

P.S. I Hate Taxes

Wrote some checks tonight. Funny how they all have you make your checks out to anything but “taxes,” the Franchise Board, U.S. Treasury, whatever. Like it makes it better to not write that word on the check.

Anyway, it is official. I hate taxes.

At least they’re done (thanks Deb!).

Sickie

I’m just getting better. I was s-i-c-k! It sucked. And the worst part was I actually had to take an overnight trip to Chicago in the middle of being sick. I highly advise flying while sick. Love the non-stop action in the eardrums.

The upside is that Deb did NOT get sick in the whole process, but the downside is approximately $45 in cold medicine and $150 in juice.

Hope everyone is healthy!

Dow Jones Announces Executives

Dow Jones Integrated Solutions names executives

Does that mean I am technically an “executive” now? Wow.

–UPDATED–

Here’s a PDF of the actual press release as it was posted on our internal website DowJones.net.

–SECOND UPDATE–

The official Dow Jones press release as posted on the external website–and the press release you can find on PR Wire.

On the Road Again

I thought I left the West Coast to work in New York City? So what’s up with my being on a plane headed for the Pacific timezone again? At least I’m going to Southern California for a little variety rather than heading right back where we started from.

All that to say the job is going well. I’m very much enjoying the new (old?) job with Dow Jones Integrated Solutions. There are going to be a lot of similarities to what I was doing before at Dow Jones, but it looks like it will be different in all the right ways. I spent much of my first week getting up to speed, working on one particular pitch (for which I am now flying to help present; too bad I didn’t get the one also happening tomorrow—in Detroit!) and meeting with folks from other Dow Jones properties. It is exciting, but probably a bit busier than my first 8-years at Dow Jones and certainly busier than these last several months of transition.

I’m back in New York tomorrow evening. Can’t wait.