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Cory Doctorow: How to stop your inbox exploding: In the Guardian Cory writes covers a set of simple tips for keeping messages to your inbox to a minimum. The five tips are: Sort your inbox by subject, color-code messages from known senders, kill people who make you crazy, half-resign from mailing lists, and keep a pending list.

Three Human Interface Hypotheses Update: Email is Efail: Tantek Çelik makes the case that email has failed him as a communication medium of choice and that other communications media are better. His experience does not mirror my own, although clearly he receives a higher volume of email that he finds a hassle to manage.

Email Insanity & the 0.001 Challenge: Merlin Mann at 43 Folders follows up with a series of observations on his own difficulties with email that are worth a read.