Robert Niles has had enough: "[E]-mail's an excellent choice to let readers know about enterprise stories or other exclusives that the news organization is breaking. But… sending a "breaking news alert" hours after everyone from Helsinki to Honolulu has been tweeting the news just embarrasses the news organization. There's no better way to reinforce the message, 'Hi, just to remind you: We're clueless and slow!' Better not to send the e-mail at all." [Via]

Want to know if your company is about to go under on account of crookedness on an epic scale, or even general criminal incompetence? Check e-mail logs! A couple of scientists who got access to Enron's e-mail system took a look at how much mail was sent during critical moments in 2001 before the energy giant went under. Although they expected to see a huge spike in activity immediately before the collapse, it wasn't the case.