Yet Another Premature Declaration of Email's Death

mvip tips the latest in a long line of premature announcements of the demise of email. "The Wall Street Journal article Why Email No Longer Rules is making the rounds online. Fast Company provided a fast response, highlighting the technical shortcomings of trying to replace email with Facebook and Twitter (where do the attachments go?). Email Service Guide points out that Facebook and Twitter are ineffective for one-off communications. With Google Wave on the horizon, we'll probably have to go through the whole charade yet again."

Comments

Re: "Get Work Done"

[TaoPhoenix]

Hi Owl.
Sometimes "work" means drilling off some fast answer "JIT". (Remember that craze? I find it's better to have just a little slack.)

Leave the email up shrunk to the side. Watch the randomness float in. Send President@YourCompany his four answers, and the other 22 emails can wait. ReplyToPres / (Answer) / Send is absolutely as fast as anything else.

Re:I've said it before and I'll say it again.

[NoPantsJim]

Yeah don't bother explaining why or anything. I don't see a single thing about that post that warrants "flamebait".