Unfortunate Observations
4
I just spent a few hours here catching up on e-mail and sending out some necessary Escape Pod correspondence. Didn’t quite wipe out my two months’ backlog of stuff, but I made a dent.
About half a dozen messages went to other podcasters with questions or requests. Replies came back pretty much instantaneously.
What do I learn from this?
- Every podcaster in the world except me answers their e-mail promptly. I’m the solitary schmuck.
- Every podcaster in the world is on e-mail the middle of Saturday night.
What’s up with that? I know I don’t have a life, but doesn’t someone out there have one? Or at least rent one?
It’s 3:45am and I here to tell you that you’re right. Podcasters don’t have lives.
About the email thing. Gmail has helped restore sanity to my inbox.
Comment by Andy Doan — April 9, 2006 @ 2:53 am
I’ve been known to take several days to respond to email, even when I do read it right away. Been trying to improve on that, but I honestly don’t know how people consistently reply that fast. Sometimes, yeah, when I’m on and kinda in reply mode it’ll happen in hours–but not consistently, and rarely for correspondence that requires any sort of thought before replying.
Comment by janni — April 9, 2006 @ 11:07 am
I answer almost every piece of e-mail as soon as I get it… which is almost as horrible a time-sucker as waiting two months to spend hours catching up.
But Andy’s right… we have no lives. That’s why we talk into microphones and pretend people are listening!
Comment by Matthew Wayne Selznick — April 10, 2006 @ 1:08 am
Hey Steve!
Well, if you had emailed me, I wouldn’t have answered, because I was out. But you didn’t, so there.
Btw, I create an LJ feed to here: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/podcast_pedant/.
Cheers.
Comment by Jason Erik Lundberg — April 10, 2006 @ 9:11 pm