{"id":3817,"date":"2013-09-30T07:59:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/email-gets-failing-grades-i-speak-for-noemail\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T13:02:56","slug":"email-gets-failing-grades-i-speak-for-noemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/email-gets-failing-grades-i-speak-for-noemail\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Gets Failing Grades. I speak for #noemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#noemail is stylish. Who knew? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/29\/fashion\/technology-and-the-college-generation.html\">Courtney Rubin reports in this past Sunday&#8217;s NYTimes Style section &#8220;Email Gets Failing Grades&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m quoted as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPaul Jones, a professor at the University of North Carolina, does not think they should have to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;E-mail is a sinkhole where knowledge goes to die,&#8221; said Mr. Jones, who said that he gave up e-mail in 2011. It was a radical move, not least because Mr. Jones helped write the code for the university&#8217;s first e-mail program 30 years ago. &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to undo that sinful work,&#8221; he said, joking.<\/p>\n<p>E-mails to him receive an automated reply: &#8220;Goodbye E-mail, I&#8217;m divesting,&#8221; plus some 20 ways to reach him. About the only person frustrated by this, he said, was a department head who wanted to know &#8220;how will you possibly read our important departmental announcements?&#8221; Mr. Jones said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>But in his quest to eliminate e-mail, Mr. Jones may have a surprising obstacle: students. Canvas, a two-year-old learning management system used by Brown University, among others, allows students to choose how to receive messages like &#8220;The reading assignment has been changed to Chapter 2.&#8221;\u009d The options: e-mail, text, Facebook and Twitter. According to company figures, 98 percent chose e-mail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My responses here later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#noemail is stylish. Who knew? Courtney Rubin reports in this past Sunday&#8217;s NYTimes Style section &#8220;Email Gets Failing Grades&#8221;. I&#8217;m quoted as: Paul Jones, a professor at the University of North Carolina, does not think they should have to. &#8220;E-mail is a sinkhole where knowledge goes to die,&#8221; said Mr. Jones, who said that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-noemail","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","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=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}