{"id":227,"date":"2006-12-26T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T20:59:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T02:08:26","slug":"why-email-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/12\/why-email-is-broken","title":{"rendered":"An Animated Look at Why E-Mail Is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interactive animation below accurately describes the state of my e-mail situation, in this, my 13th year with the medium:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 10px; width: 450px; text-align: center\">\n<div id=\"swf_mail\" style=\"height:300px; width: 450px; border: 1px solid #000; margin: 0 auto 0 auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n<!--\r\nif (swfobject.hasFlashPlayerVersion(\"7.0.0\")) {\r\nshowFlash('https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/swfs\/inline\/mail.swf','swf_mail', 450,300,'');\r\n} else {\r\ndocument.write('<p style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #660000\">Please install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\">Flash 7<\/a> in order to view this.<\/p>');\r\n}\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<p>Over the last couple of years, I&#8217;ve gone from someone who returns 99% of e-mails &#8212; and relatively quickly &#8212; to someone who routinely takes days, weeks, and sometimes even months to return certain mails, recently resorting to instant deletion just to avoid the buildup.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to figure out how to best express the dynamics of the situation in words, but an animated illustration seemed to get the point across much better, so this weekend, I whipped out Flash for the first time in about a year.  The end result is kind of soothing actually&#8230; turn spam off, slide the top to &#8220;Fast&#8221;, and slide the bottom to &#8220;Manageable&#8221;.  Now that&#8217;s e-mail nirvana&#8230; something I&#8217;ll never achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks also to professional mathlete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songstage.net\/artists\/tlaramee\/\">Tom Laramee<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songstage.net\">SongStage.net<\/a> for helping me even out the slider effect with an exponential decay equation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interactive animation below accurately describes the state of my e-mail situation, in this, my 13th year with the medium: &#8230;Over the last couple of years, I&#8217;ve gone from someone who returns 99% of e-mails &#8212; and relatively quickly &#8212; to someone who routinely takes days, weeks, and sometimes even months to return certain mails, recently resorting to instant deletion just to avoid the buildup.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to figure out how to best express the dynamics of the situation in words, but an animated illustration seemed to get the point across much better, so this weekend, I whipped out Flash for the first time in about a year.  The end result is kind of soothing actually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29877,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/29877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}