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After Wednesday's revelation that NASCAR would be fining, penalizing and suspending No. 48 Sprint Car Series crew chief Chad Knaus, car chief Ron Malec, driver Jimmie Johnson (aka 'five-time" for the championships he's won) and owner Jeff Gordon, team owner Rick Hendrick said Hendrick Motorsports would contest the penalties that arose from Knaus' use of "unapproved" body parts in the "C" pillar of the Chevrolet.

In a wine- and scotch-soaked interview with GQ magazine, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht managed to turn a planned mea culpa moment into an accusation against his former boss, Jeff Bewkes.

Jeff and Dan fool Alex in to thinking he got a crappy DVD for his birthday.

A CUTE, kid-friendly version of this song... As sung by Caitlin C., Brooklyn C., Jeff C. .

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will announce the global launch of the Kindle Mobile Learning Initiative on Wednesday, June 20 at a press conference in Washington, D.C. Described as a “public-private partnership with Amazon and the U.S. government,” the program is [...]

In 1994, a 30-year-old Jeff Bezos was looking for "extremely talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet." This was when his company was called Abracadabra, not yet Amazon, and before the developer whizzes he did hire would indeed pioneer commerce on the internet. Would you have answered this ad?

Email is taking up too much time in our lives. Do yourself and your recipients a favor by making your emails 3 sentences or less. If we all do it, imagine the time well have to do other things. If this was an actual email reply and not a blog post, it would have ended before this sentence started. Ive been trying a new solution to email overload by limiting emails to 3 sentences or less. You can learn the details in just 5 sentences at three.sentenc.es. The basic concept is to treat all email replies like SMS messages. I take this one step further and try to write initial emails in 3 sentences or less whenever possible. I first learned about 3 sentence emails from a post by Kevin Rose, where he lists 5 good email time saving tips. The inbox has become the dreaded inbox for so many people. A recent study by Xobni claimed 1 in 5 Americans check email either as the first thing they do in the morning or the last thing at night. 26% of Americans feel they cant handle or feel overwhelmed by the number of emails they receive during vacation. Another report [PDF] by The Radicati Group says the typical corporate user sends 36 emails and receives 61 legitimate emails during the average day. An IDC study estimates email consumes an average of 13 hours per week per information worker. Since starting at TechCrunch TV, I get about 100 to 200 emails a day which require action or a response. The newly launched Google Priority Inbox, which is getting postive reviews, helps. Although venture investor Jeff Clavier discovered it can make some mistakes. Google decided his wifes emails werent important. Not good. Even with Priority Inbox, staying up to 2am and working on emails 2 to 3 hours a day during my commute, I still cant keep up with the email avalanche and get my inbox to zero. My inbox problems are nothing compared to the TechCrunch writers. Or, to my boss Michael Arrington. Two years ago, when he wrote a post about email overload and a crisis in communication, he had 2,433 unread messages sitting in his inbox. Today, the count is 8 times higher: 20,131 unread messages. And this doesnt include additional inbox items from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, voicemail, text messages, Skype, etc. Lets assume Mike did nothing else but read emails 24/7 no writing posts, no talking on the phone, no eating, and no sleeping well, that one might be accurate. It would take him 1 week to just read his email, assuming each email takes an average of 30 seconds to read and digest. Now, lets say all of his emails were 3 sentences or less. The average time to read them would be drop to about 10 seconds. He could get through them all in a little more than 2 days. Ill admit the 3 sentence email isnt going to solve the email problem completely. In Mikes email post two years ago, he wrote The long term answer is that someone needs to create a new technology that allows us to enjoy our life but not miss important messages. He said if he had the right solution, he would quit his job and go do it. Since then, there have been some minor solutions, but the email giant seems to grow just like Moores law. The new version of Twitter.com released this week might provide some relief. MG Siegler has been using the new service for a few days now. He told me he switched some email communication to Twitter Direct Message (or DM), which is now cleaner and easier. And Twitter DM forces you to keep things short. While more communication is being done by social media networks, email usage is still expected[pdf] to rise in the coming years. A Wall Street Journal article one year ago declared Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. Id say not quite yet. Mikes growing email overload creates problems for himself and the sender. He admitted to me, once an email comes in and doesnt get acted on immediately, it enters the black hole. Even if he wanted to reply, its now out of sight and unlikely to surface again. For the sender, you dont know whether the lack of reply is really a no, a never got read, or a just wait some more time for an answer. When Mike does reply, he has mastered the art of the short reply. Most of his replies are just 1 sentence or 1 word. Fine, Yes, No and an occasional Awesome. Usually, its the folks who are higher up in the organization who have perfected the terse reply. Just yesterday, we reported on unconfirmed 2 and 3 sentence Steve Jobs emails. He allegedly emailed a journalism student that Our goals do not include helping you get a good grade. Sorry. Heres another 3 sentence Jobs email reply to a customer with a water damaged MacBook Pro, upset that Apple would charge $300 to look into repairing it: This is what happens when your MacBook Pro sustains water damage. They are pro machines and they dont like water. It sounds like youre just looking for someone to get mad at other than yourself. Steve Jobs is well known for his short replies. A study of 30,000 corporate emails found that high-status employees tended to send short, curt messages. That study includes some other tips on How to E-Mail Like a C.E.O. But, a short response still requires clarity and some extra thought. A long, detailed email getting a reply like fix it or change it, may not help unless both parties know what it is. Critics may say this could lead to over-simplification or a dumbing down of communication. But, emails are not the place to write War & Peace (1,475 pages.) Email has come a long way since 1971 when Ray Tomlinson typed an insignificant and forgetable message. Its a great way to get asynchronous feedback. Ill admit some emails shouldnt be condensed, especially if they involve a lot of details or you just want to share some thoughts with friends. But those should be the exception. Many business emails I read and yes, I write, would benefit from trimming. The next time you sit down to write or reply to an email, think about keeping it short. The three.sentenc.es site recommends you add this to your email signature to help spread the word. Q: Why is this email three sentences or less? A: http://three.sentenc.es

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Minnesota Lynx center Jessica Adair underwent arthroscopic debridement of her right knee on Friday and will be sidelined until after the Olympic break.Adair has averaged 3.5 points and 2.4 rebounds in 10 games this season.

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