[FoRK] The death of email?

[Stephen D. Williams]

I agree with the need for Context, hence my alluding to various ideas 
about enriching communication and the management of knowledge.  A big 
part of that is supporting context in various ways.

I suppose I have come to value permanence and control of my information 
so much that it puzzles me when people continue to operate on the 
everything-is-ephemeral-except-the-patchy-fuzzy-bits-that-stick-in-my-memory 
model.  That, in addition to the patchy reachability compared to real 
email or phone traffic or postal mail for that matter, seems like 
surprising self-limiting behavior.

I'm definitely interested in understanding the motivations more.

sdw

Ian Andrew Bell wrote:
> Top-Posting:  It's not about Access.  It's about Context.
>
> Please Continue.
>
> -Ian.
>
>
> On 21-Jan-08, at 8:13 PM, Jeff Bone wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 21, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote:
>>
>>> What's profound about the rejection of email and embrace of messaging
>>> within closed communities is that it is a rejection of
>>> interoperability.  The goals and strategies of the founding generation
>>> of internet creators are not meeting the needs of these users.
>>>
>>> It's not spam that they object to -- myspace is crawling with it.
>>> It's open access.  These users are seeking to be in sealed
>>> environments.  The Compuserve model is undead.
>>
>> Place-ification.  Situatedness.
>>
>> I'm skeptical, but it's an interesting hypothesis.
>>
>> jb
>>
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