Hmmm, Facebook: a new kind of press release

Interesting. So in giving people easy access to Facebook walls, iPhone are starting to make e-mail obsolete (at least, the public PR part of e-mail). This often happens in the evolution of media – unintended consequences, in which the parts add up to more than the whole… http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphone-boosts-literacy.html

Do you mean *NO* email, or just none with PR people?

If none at all, that would certainly make for an interesting Plaxo update!

Facebook evangelist?

I just don’t see “the wall” being a replacement for e-mail. It can’t scale.

Jeremy: I read all my email. I just rarely answer it anymore. The flow is too high.

Dewey: I evangelize a bunch of different technologies. Facebook certainly is hot on my radar screen right now.

At least that bunch doesn’t include solely Microsoft

Okay… that’s enough comedy from me for the night…

Heheh. What’s funny is that we’re now talking about products as we walk around baby stores!

Robert,

It great to see you are joining the rest of us declaring email bankruptcy. Mark Harrisons short comments http://markharrison.wordpress.com/2007/07/06/outlook-express-youre-fired/

Seem to be gathering pace on the Facebook group started a few weeks ago as well

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2468467202

To take an old campaign line from the Conservatives

“Email isnt working”

Thanks.

iPhone App Manager FTW! Try this Scoble: http://iphoneappmanager.com/ You wont be disappointed.

Robert, thanks very much for trying out Mock Dock and giving it a nod. Especially cool that you and Patrick tried it out in Babies R Us. You have boundless energy.

Just a quick update: As a result of the traffic your story generated, Mock Dock (http://mockdock.com)has thousands of registered users…and that number is going up by several hundred per hour. Plus, Charlie Chambers, the developer, is implementing improvements on the fly, so it’s better today than yesterday. That will go on all week. It’s a collaborative effort.

Thanks again. P.S. No PR guy here, by the way. Charlie is a friend of mine. Just thought it was a cool idea and fun to get the word out. I appreciate that you looked. Rock on, man!

Robert, I guess you have enough business to NOT read email. Sounds nice. If you are not careful, one day, people will realize that since ‘the flow is too high’ they will stop trying to communicate with you. Saying that you get too much email (I’m asuming you are not talking about spam) that you can’t (won’t) read sounds like you are a snob and can care less about others. I understand how technology is changing and yes, there may major shifts in how we communicate. But by publicly stating that you just don’t read it sounds kinda bad. Sorry , thats just my opinion.

Paul: I read all my email. I don’t have time to answer it all, though. I’m in a weird situation, have tens of thousands of people here every day. It generates a LOT of email.

Paul,

Don Knuth publicly announced that he’s stopped reading email back on January 1st 1990, and it didn’t seem to do him any harm.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

or, if you prefer:

`I don’t even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.’ — Umberto Eco, quoted in the New Yorker

Mark

Mark,

As a computer scientist myself, I thank you for that wonderful link. I especially like the part about how long it takes to answer a fax :>

Paul

Conversations seem to become stagnant as we develop deeper information overload problems. We stop seeking new information as we try to deal with the information we already receive. If this softwear frees me up to continue finding new and better conversations, then perhaps it is wort a try. If on the other hand it becomes another time consuming attention grabber requiring continuos grooming, why bother?

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