I comment a jillion times more often than I post, too. (though I don't have a heck of a lot interesting/positive to post lately)
This post is another data smudge (a lot fuzzier than a point) toward something I've been thinking about for a while, but haven't quite gotten a handle on: a taxonomy of asynchronous communications. We have proliferating electronic media (email, sms/text, lj/facebook/myspace, twitter) which people create social protocols and applications for. The first one I noticed was in the early business adoption of email, the "asynchronous phone call". Instead of interrupting someone, or playing phone tag, you shoot off a quick email; they reply at their relative convenience; you volly until the item is closed. No one interrupts, no one is interrupted, and the "conversation" is almost exactly what it would have been by phone, but a lot less intrusive.
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Date: 2009-12-05 07:21 pm (UTC)This post is another data smudge (a lot fuzzier than a point) toward something I've been thinking about for a while, but haven't quite gotten a handle on: a taxonomy of asynchronous communications. We have proliferating electronic media (email, sms/text, lj/facebook/myspace, twitter) which people create social protocols and applications for.
The first one I noticed was in the early business adoption of email, the "asynchronous phone call". Instead of interrupting someone, or playing phone tag, you shoot off a quick email; they reply at their relative convenience; you volly until the item is closed. No one interrupts, no one is interrupted, and the "conversation" is almost exactly what it would have been by phone, but a lot less intrusive.