{"id":3825,"date":"2013-10-21T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2013-10-21T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:36:40","slug":"noemail-and-two-old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/noemail-and-two-old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"#noemail and two old friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reconnections with two old friends with #noemail connections this morning.<\/p>\n<p>First <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paul.gilster\">Paul Gilster<\/a> writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2013\/10\/20\/3292213\/paul-glister-not-ready-to-give.html\">about not being able to go #noemail in the News &#038; Observer.<\/a> He has nice things to say (and mentions me and the #noemail life I&#8217;m leading), but as I comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paul,<br \/>\nWhy be negative?<br \/>\nit&#8217;s not quitting email, it&#8217;s communicating in better ways. #noemail is saying &#8220;I&#8217;m here but I don&#8217;t live at my desk&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m social when more appropriate&#8221; &#8220;Say it quickly and be direct&#8221; &#8220;Less covering your rear at work by CCing your boss at every move; work it out your self&#8221; &#8220;More sharing&#8221; and in the end a richer life.<br \/>\nAs for email, it was adequate for the needs of the late 20th Century.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t live there any more.<br \/>\nPeace out,<br \/>\nPaul <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul is doing great work about space travel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centauri-dreams.org\/\">Centauri Dreams<\/a>. Perhaps he&#8217;s seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/archive\/2013\/09\/space-travelers-are-informed-by-ibiblio-the-movie\/\">ibiblio &#8211; the movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Second, my ole pal and running buddy, Tom Wilkinson, who does no email and no social media is featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlottemagazine.com\/\">Charlotte Magazine<\/a> telling his tall &#8212; but also true &#8212; tales in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlottemagazine.com\/Charlotte-Magazine\/November-2013\/The-Entertainer\/\">&#8220;The Entertainer: the Backstage Live of Tom Wilkinson.&#8221;<\/a> No page can contain Tom&#8217;s talking and animated presentation, but this is a good tribute and a good primer. Email could not do him justice, but maybe YouTube or Vimeo could.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charlottemagazine.com\/images\/cache\/67a09a83b247cbd63fce3c2979fbae14.jpeg\" alt=\"Tom WIlkinson in Charlotte Magazine Credit Logan Cyrus\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconnections with two old friends with #noemail connections this morning. First Paul Gilster writes about not being able to go #noemail in the News &#038; Observer. He has nice things to say (and mentions me and the #noemail life I&#8217;m leading), but as I comment: Paul, Why be negative? it&#8217;s not quitting email, it&#8217;s communicating [&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-3825","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\/3825","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=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3826,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}