13 August 2003

Ross Mayfield: interruption 'taxes' in IM, email, phonecalls includes good stats for Peopleware fans. As you'd expect, generally an inverse relationship between how personal and 'intense' the type of interruption is (phonecall, email etc) and time-to-recover-from-interruption, except that IM (which has more presence than email) may extract a lower interruption tax. Another reason to use it in the office? 11:59:28 AM     comments

BBC: Phone tones to beat CD singles The lines cross on the graph. 11:42:18 AM     comments