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Losing My e-Mail
That's me in the corner,
that's me in the spotlight '
losing my religion,
trying to keep up with you
and I don't know if I can do it;
oh no, I've said too much,
I haven't said enough.
' REM, “Losing My Religion” 1991
In today's BlackBerry-driven, online business world, losing one's e-mail ' and access to other online forms of communication ' has to be worse than REM's fear of losing one's religion.
Yet that is just the fate that may await our next President, who has already publicly confessed (on national television, no less, though you can certainly find the story on the Internet) his steadfast inability to shake his smoking addiction under the stress of a Presidential campaign. (In fact, we give in: if you want to see the story online, see, www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iam-I4x t2lfqKv-xpHVSoxSFJCgAD951CKF80.) As has been widely reported, President-elect Barack Obama may have to give up the e-mail he constantly retrieves from the BlackBerry that was a ubiquitous companion during the 2008 campaign (see, www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html?_r=1 and http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6329884). One Canadian wag, writing in Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper, even called it “one of his dearest friends, the lifeline that helped him power his way to the driver's seat of the United States.” But his friend may be banned, or greatly restricted, in the White House.
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