getting out there...
My friend Jason taught me a new phrase.
" fill_in_the_blank is for old people." It's apparently a phrase used to denigrate a technology as antiquated. So "Rotary dial telephones are for old people" makes fun of rotary dial phones. Got it? Good.
So here's my theory. Email is for old people. Gone is the charm of the internet, when not quite everyone had a couple of email addresses. Now I have trouble keeping it all straight. I've got email addresses that I use when I want to be found, email addresses that I use when I want to get the email, but don't trust that it won't result in spam, and on and on it goes. Thankfully the nice people at sxip came up with sxipper to keep me straight on that front.
That's more than just a plug for a cool app. It's a sidetracking statement. It doesn't change the fact that I'm ready to move on from thinking of email as the best way of managing things. I really wish that I could get people to just sign up for RSS feeds of a blog so that I didn't need to get a flood of crappy me-too emails. Then I wouldn't need to remind people to email my personal account instead of the office one. I wouldn't get interrupted by email directed to a group. A blog or message board is so much easier to use than having a ridiculous number of email messages bouncing around. For crying out loud, we can't even get everyone email address correct. And when we do, some nitwit doesn't bother using the new list. It's incredibly annoying for me to think that I hang out with smart people who sometimes don't get that email isn't the answer to everything.
So here's the plan. I'm going to stop thinking of email as the killer-app of the Internet. It was. But it won't be the killer app of Web 2.0. I'm not sure what it will be, but I'm going to start getting ready for it.
So here's the start of it... I'm linking the blog to Technorati. I'm going to go out and get a myspace account. I'm going to start mining the contacts available to me on LinkedIn. All that jazz.
So, for those of you who want to find me, here you go. Link to me. Join me in a community online. We're going to change the world (or at least our little part of it).
Technorati Profile
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So here's my theory. Email is for old people. Gone is the charm of the internet, when not quite everyone had a couple of email addresses. Now I have trouble keeping it all straight. I've got email addresses that I use when I want to be found, email addresses that I use when I want to get the email, but don't trust that it won't result in spam, and on and on it goes. Thankfully the nice people at sxip came up with sxipper to keep me straight on that front.
That's more than just a plug for a cool app. It's a sidetracking statement. It doesn't change the fact that I'm ready to move on from thinking of email as the best way of managing things. I really wish that I could get people to just sign up for RSS feeds of a blog so that I didn't need to get a flood of crappy me-too emails. Then I wouldn't need to remind people to email my personal account instead of the office one. I wouldn't get interrupted by email directed to a group. A blog or message board is so much easier to use than having a ridiculous number of email messages bouncing around. For crying out loud, we can't even get everyone email address correct. And when we do, some nitwit doesn't bother using the new list. It's incredibly annoying for me to think that I hang out with smart people who sometimes don't get that email isn't the answer to everything.
So here's the plan. I'm going to stop thinking of email as the killer-app of the Internet. It was. But it won't be the killer app of Web 2.0. I'm not sure what it will be, but I'm going to start getting ready for it.
So here's the start of it... I'm linking the blog to Technorati. I'm going to go out and get a myspace account. I'm going to start mining the contacts available to me on LinkedIn. All that jazz.
So, for those of you who want to find me, here you go. Link to me. Join me in a community online. We're going to change the world (or at least our little part of it).
Technorati Profile
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