How much are you paid by the minute? Is it worth more than reading an email? 

This article on mastering email looks at that question. Good ideas on keeping that brimming inbox under control. Most articles of this nature though seem to assume that everyone is a contractor and that most of the email is disposable stuff about cheap pizza and frozen Nigerian bank accounts. Maybe much of this content is written by contractors looking for work. Few articles deal with mountains of corporate email that you can't just file as spam. There's a big market for a magic bullet for corporate email and I'm in the queue.

The big question in the article above is whether you're paid too much by the minute to waste it reading email. Divide your yearly salary by 120,000 and you'll know what you earn per minute. Do it now. It's quite intriguing.

Inbox Zero. While on the subject of email, Merlin Mann's writing a book about email, based on the famous Inbox Zero articles (famous to email ranters like me, anyway). Meanwhile, you can hear Merlin (one of the afore-mentioned contractors) expound on the subject below.

Merlin Mann on Inbox Zero. Presented to Google Staff at Mountain View in 2007. One hour long, so put time aide...