{"id":3603,"date":"2011-12-19T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2011-12-19T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T21:26:40","slug":"steve-gillmor-remembers-email-in-a-time-of-noemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/steve-gillmor-remembers-email-in-a-time-of-noemail\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Gillmor Remembers email in a time of #noemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/author\/steve-gillmor\/\">Steve Gillmor<\/a> of Gillmor Gang writes in <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\">TechCrunch<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/12\/18\/remembering-email\/\">&#8220;Remembering Email&#8221;<\/a> which is much like remembering the magic of Top 40 Radio or maybe the first clear FM stations. Steve notes that notifications have taken over his attention and ours, but even more the attention of our kids.<br \/>\nReaders of this blog won&#8217;t be surprised by this. <em>Short, fast, highly interactive, mobile<\/em>. That&#8217;s the future of messaging. And that ain&#8217;t email. And in case, you haven&#8217;t noticed that ain&#8217;t even voice anymore. Kids text more than voice and more than email. Many of us older folks do as well. The trend lines are set and the practices of business are changing (again see this blog).<br \/>\nEmail puts knowledge in siloed inboxes; social (as Luis Suarez has been saying) makes knowledge more open, additive and makes us all richer. The business case, at least internally, is clear.<br \/>\nSteve notices that email serves most often as the default way to notify us of social updates. But, as he also notices, the new robust iOS notifications do a much better job. Those changes sent many folks running to shut off email notifications and get the notification clutter out of the inbox and on the palm top where they are <em>Short, fast, highly interactive, mobile<\/em><br \/>\nSteve has additional observations about authority, command and control, sharing, and even the privacy of direct messages.<br \/>\nAll good. Email contains the seeds of its own destruction. &#8220;The reason email will disappear is because it is the single most effective tool for moving to social.&#8221; Once that bridge is effectively crossed, we&#8217;ll burn it behind us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Gillmor of Gillmor Gang writes in TechCrunch about &#8220;Remembering Email&#8221; which is much like remembering the magic of Top 40 Radio or maybe the first clear FM stations. Steve notes that notifications have taken over his attention and ours, but even more the attention of our kids. Readers of this blog won&#8217;t be surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noemail","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","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=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3606,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}