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Month: January 2013

Old, New and Upcoming of Things ibiblian and Jonesian

Four things ibiblian and/or Jonesian:

  1. Folkstreams.net, an ibiblio-hosted project, got a very good mention on the most read blog, boingboing.net
  2. I’m speaking at the RTP Association of Information Technology Professionals on Thursday Jan 10 on a panel titled “Strictly Social – How do you connect? Cutting Edge Communication for the Future.”
  3. I’m speaking at the Ackland Art Museum during the More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s exhibit showing on “The Work of Art, Technology, and Love in the Age of Digital Reproduction” on March 20 at 2 pm in the Tea at Two series
  4. ibiblio got some love from the Paleofuture at the Smithsonian as one of the Fun Places on the Internet (1995) for the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit.(still in 1995 shape)

Time’s a-wastin’ (doing email) – #noemail

Gideon Lichfield writing in Quartz notes: You are wasting your time on email. Now more than ever. Quit! Average email reply time in 2012 went up to 2.5 Days from 2.2 days in 2011. (according to Cue.com which also notes that dogs are mentioned more often than cats in corporate email. 38% vs 32%).

Wasted time waiting for email replies

Wasted time waiting for email replies

The forward thinking Lichfield also observes:

On current trends, then, if email response times keep increasing by 10% a year, and assuming that an average postal delivery time in your country is two days, I estimate that by approximately 2020 it will be faster to get an answer from someone by writing a letter than by sending an email.

(his bold statement)

Be ahead of the pack; begin with #noemail today (really you should give some announcement beforehand. See suggestions throughout this blog for how to quit with grace).

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