The death of Email
Jun. 25th, 2003 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's something about e-mail that demands a reply, demands a response. But when you’re getting thousands of these things, it becomes an impossibility to respond to everything. So we’ve got to shift the etiquette, and maybe make e-mail more like publishing: that is, you send something out and you might get one percent response. I think that the paradigm of e-mail as letters, as objects, is inappropriate. I'm waiting for a shift to the timeline, rather than the object, as the organizing principle. If you think about a blog for instance, that’s a timeline. And it’s a really good way of organizing huge amounts of information, because we’re quite good at sequencing.
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Date: 2003-06-25 08:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-25 08:18 am (UTC)As far as I know, there's no massive different in functionality between MSN and IRC - both allow you to have synchronous communication either one on one or in a group.
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Date: 2003-06-25 08:20 am (UTC)It's not so much a matter of functionality as common usage - most people use IRC for broadcasting and IM for narrowcasting. The two have very different cultures and user bases.
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Date: 2003-06-25 08:28 am (UTC)I didn't include 'bulletin boards' or "diaryland" either, despite them being different enough to be worth covering in some ways.
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Date: 2003-06-25 08:38 am (UTC)I'd say all of them to some degree.
Probably Email most of all, but maybe messenger, depending. Dammit, it's too vague
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Date: 2003-06-25 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-25 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-26 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-27 01:20 am (UTC)Other than that, I never phone anyone uless I have a specific thing to say that needs answering then/there, or am saying "I'm outside Sainsburies, where are you?" in an attempt to meet up with people.