{"id":3390,"date":"2011-07-14T09:23:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2011-07-14T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:23:47","slug":"four-factors-for-tech-in-an-noemail-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/four-factors-for-tech-in-an-noemail-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Four factors for Tech in an #noemail context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have suggested many reasons why one should or should not use email or #noemail. Like most technology, there are four factors interacting that cannot be isolated from each other but that can really make the choices difficult or simple. <\/p>\n<p>Briefly:<\/p>\n<p>Many of my IT pals would like to fix email through some technical changes (they see these are improvements) aimed at changing misuses of email &#8212; shortmail and sentenc.es and even Gmail are promising examples of technology modifications for email. They say mail filters are the answer. etc.<\/p>\n<p>Some people just love email. It means something deep to them. Others just don&#8217;t like change. They have something that they are very comfortable with and won&#8217;t want to learn anything else. One friend said: I still love Pine &#8212; for example. It works the other way too: &#8220;Paul is always just trying something new and shiny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where my friends, business, etc are is where I want to be. The social is very strong. Not just about being social but how our social circles define themselves. Examples: I won&#8217;t have a Blackberry because that&#8217;s for suits. I&#8217;m in open source so I need an Android phone. My band and my fans are all still on MySpace; we&#8217;ll never leave. Only dorks use [whatever]. All the cool kids are on Google +.<\/p>\n<p>Politics and law are also exert a very strong influence on how tools are used and preceived as in: My boss insists that we all use [whatever system]. We can&#8217;t use Facebook at work; the IT folks blocked it because of company policy. HIPPA requires that we keep records this way. Isn&#8217;t there a state law about that? I travel to Iran and that software won&#8217;t work there.<\/p>\n<p>I summarize:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Technological &#8211; the tool part of being a tool including function and interface<\/li>\n<li>Psychological &#8211; your attitude, perceptions and use needs etc. you are part of the tool and it&#8217;s part of you<\/li>\n<li>Social &#8211; how your friends, colleagues, etc see and use the tool in a social and cultural context.<\/li>\n<li>Political &#8211; you must or must not use this tool or you may only use this tool for [whatever]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have suggested many reasons why one should or should not use email or #noemail. Like most technology, there are four factors interacting that cannot be isolated from each other but that can really make the choices difficult or simple. Briefly: Many of my IT pals would like to fix email through some technical changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}