For me writing an e-mail often takes quite a bit longer than a phone call because I must craft it much more carefully, people often read and reread e-mails multiple times.

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I've skimmed The New York Times, read a few updates on Facebook, checked a Yahoo account that consists mostly of spam and spent a disproportionately long time writing an e-mail connecting two friends in Beijing.

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Simply scheduling an e-mail for future delivery is pretty easy--just a matter of writing it and setting a send date in the future.

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Blogger has a simple interface for writing posts and uploading photos, which is similar to using a Web-based e-mail service to write an e-mail.

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Gunn blogged about the trend in January, writing that when someone hands her a paper resume at a job fair, she hands it back and asks for an e-mail.

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