On Message with Ben Gross

Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast: Matt Richtel at the New York Times writes about corporate recognition of the costs of interruption and distraction caused by email and other messaging technologies. Richtel now says that many of the companies that are also the largest messaging providers are working together to develop new tools and strategies to help workers focus and suffer less interruptions.

Email Deliverability is crucial to achieve consumer Internet virality: In his weblog Summation, Auren Hoffman provides a terse but very useful list of resources to improve email deliverability. It is worth a quick look for anyone interested in email deliverability.

Digital Domain - In the E-Mail Relay, Not Every Handoff Is Smooth: Also in the New York Times, Randall Stross writes an funny yet accurate piece about the modern dilemmas of failed email delivery compared to message delivery in days gone by.

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