The death of Email

[andrewducker]

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.

From here.

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Comments

[gwenix.livejournal.com]

Can't answer this question, it depends on the friend.

[moniqueleigh]

Ditto. If all my friends had LJ, that's probably how I'd prefer it. But hell, all of my friends don't even have email, much less LJ or IM...