Comments on: Dropbox instead of email http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22322 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tinfoil http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22322/comment-page-1#comment-974775 tinfoil Wed, 27 May 2009 23:03:03 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=22322#comment-974775 A superb read, I very much enjoyed it. Somewhat similar to Doc Searls, only without the FOSS zealotry*. It is a wonderful humanization of the topic. I abhor email, messaging or any sort of digital one-to-one communication. I am likely the only iPhone owner who hasn't texted on it. I very much enjoy sitting down for a coffee or other, more powerful beverage with the person involved, or the very least a phone conversation. I also enjoy the smell of a new book, the smell of a new record (yes, record) is euphoric and the smell of an old tube amp is out of this world, so perhaps I'm a little old fashioned. *By day I play a software consultant for businesses interested in switching to FOSS alternatives, so hush. A superb read, I very much enjoyed it. Somewhat similar to Doc Searls, only without the FOSS zealotry*. It is a wonderful humanization of the topic.

I abhor email, messaging or any sort of digital one-to-one communication. I am likely the only iPhone owner who hasn’t texted on it. I very much enjoy sitting down for a coffee or other, more powerful beverage with the person involved, or the very least a phone conversation. I also enjoy the smell of a new book, the smell of a new record (yes, record) is euphoric and the smell of an old tube amp is out of this world, so perhaps I’m a little old fashioned.

*By day I play a software consultant for businesses interested in switching to FOSS alternatives, so hush.

]]> By: Jakykong http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22322/comment-page-1#comment-974710 Jakykong Tue, 26 May 2009 19:49:44 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=22322#comment-974710 Personally, I'm a fan of having many possible ways of working available, but none forced. The problems with things that are always online are numerous -- from privacy concerns, to data archival difficulties, to lack of control over your own data (since you don't have root-level privileges on their server). E-mail may be a 30-year-old technology, but the technologies that have arisen to replace it just don't keep up the same way e-mail always did. Sorting things out, collecting them all in one location, and seeing all of your news and incoming files at once just isn't possible with facebook or twitter. Keeping a DVD backup of my data is also not possible. And my cynical lack of trust for anyone else who might want to save my data for me leads me to distrust server-oriented systems. No, e-mail isn't dead. The youth of our nation (my own generation) may be using new tools, but it would be an unfortunate loss if e-mail were truly replaced. Personally, I’m a fan of having many possible ways of working available, but none forced. The problems with things that are always online are numerous — from privacy concerns, to data archival difficulties, to lack of control over your own data (since you don’t have root-level privileges on their server).

E-mail may be a 30-year-old technology, but the technologies that have arisen to replace it just don’t keep up the same way e-mail always did. Sorting things out, collecting them all in one location, and seeing all of your news and incoming files at once just isn’t possible with facebook or twitter. Keeping a DVD backup of my data is also not possible. And my cynical lack of trust for anyone else who might want to save my data for me leads me to distrust server-oriented systems.

No, e-mail isn’t dead. The youth of our nation (my own generation) may be using new tools, but it would be an unfortunate loss if e-mail were truly replaced.

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