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UNC Professor To Explain His Year-Long Divesture From Email In Talk This Week
- News Observer, Monday, October 15, 2012 4:39 PM
Anyone who has emailed Paul Jones, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, since June 1, 2011 has received an auto-response informing the sender that he is no longer on email and not coming back. After analyzing all of the communications channels available, Professor Jones decided that email took the most time and yielded the least useful communication, and said that "holding onto email is like a bike racer on training wheels." Instead, he can be reached through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Skype, even YouTube - almost anyplace but the inbox. On Thursday of this week he will give a talk about the experience and what he has learned, though skeptical colleagues refer to it "false performance art."
