I stopped relying on email a while ago. It became a spammy landscape of screaming advertisements, a place with less text and more images, where I had a better chance at finding a shopping idea than an intellectual one. It felt like a relic of the 1990s, in the age of social networks, browser-based messaging, and interactive media.

But it’s still holding our attention. It’s still an engagement measurement tool — for marketers moreso than for us, it seems. (more…)