Miriam Cherry over at the Concurring Opinions blog has an interesting post about email bankruptcy, which is the name Wired Magazine has given to the type of overload that comes with receiving so much email that you simply give up and stop trying to manage it. Here’s an excerpt:

I wonder though, if some of us don’t go through varying phases or cycles of email bankruptcy (perhaps selectively so). How many of us keep email open all day? Check emails from the phone? Read email only on weekdays? Read emails only during certain hours in the day? Print all their email out and mark it up (someone down the hall from me actually does this)? Check emails while on vacation? Go through a month where you answer only minimal emails only then to become very chatty the next month?

I don’t know about you but I can answer yes to several of those questions. Is email bankruptcy a real problem? I’d say yes, judging by the wild popularity of the Blackberry email device, which has been dubbed the “Crackberry” by some. While email remains a popular way to communicate, it’s also becoming more difficult to manage. This can become quite a problem now that companies are mandated to comply with new email compliance regulations.