A nytimes article on the growing fight against information overload, especially email addiction. I like the solution with Google's E-Mail Addict - "an experimental feature for the company's e-mail service that lets people cut themselves off from their in-boxes for 15 minutes."
"There's a competitive advantage of figuring out how to address this problem," Mr. Tang said. He said that there was "a certain amount of irony" in the fact that the solutions are coming from the very companies that built the digital systems in the first place.