An E-Tool Bill of Rights

With the surfeit of inbound communication unleashed by our always-on culture, life balance pundit Joe Robinson thinks it's time to get constitutional about our rights as overwhelmed e-citizens. I can definitely get behind a couple of the "articles" he's laid out:

In the spirit of Madison and Jefferson, it's time to reclaim liberty, not to mention productivity, with some boundary setting and rules. It's time to redraw the line between work and home, and between legitimate office communications and junk, with an E-Tool Bill of Rights...

Article 3: The people shall have the right to switch off email notification and other noisemakers and instead check messages at designated times to prevent attention deficit...

Article 4: There shall be no requirement of immediate response to messaging, unless urgency is determined.

Your mileage, like my own, will vary on some of these, but I'm always happy to see this thread of conversation picked up; I regret that we still have a ways to go before some of these would be ratified by the extant electronic body politic.

[ Thanks, barrett55 ]

Superlative philosopher-blogger Gus Van Horn contemplates throwing away his PDA in favor of a "microlaptop".

Somebody should tell him about the Hipster.

http://gusvanhorn.blogspot.com/2008/03/better-than-pda.html

What is a wiki?

Help me find an easier path to "Save as PDF"

My trick for getting my in-box to zero

Number of tasks..

Career Hiccup

Is there a mobile only based GTD application. I am on the road most of my time and have no internet access for better part of my day. So any web app will not work for me. I would like to use a GTD app which is purely Mobile phone/PDA based and does not require an internet connection.

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