Comments on Faster Future: Publishing possibilities now and beyond: What's the opposite of email?

Thought-provoking post David and I'm in agreement ...

2008-12-11T10:38:00.000Z

Thought-provoking post David and I'm in agreement that email *is still* the most accommodating place to base that media mass. What's also clear is there's still no silver bullet, so how we organise our online existence is key.

Adriana has written a great response to this post ...

2008-12-11T08:55:00.000Z

Adriana has written a great response to this post on her blog. Follow the link below )on email, logins, identifiers and identity)

Cool, thanks Alex and Stowe. Alex, where do you st...

2008-12-11T08:47:00.000Z

Cool, thanks Alex and Stowe. Alex, where do you store your database. Is it backed up in the cloud - and if so how do you access it. I'm just thinking somewhere among the locks and keys must be an email address? Will check out your post,

I shall post something at length, later, but for t...

2008-12-10T23:13:00.000Z

I shall post something at length, later, but for the moment I manage quite well with different passwords for each system, the database of the whole held under encryption.

It's not as hard as you'd think.

Email has come to have these two functions: identi...

2008-12-10T17:44:00.000Z

Email has come to have these two functions: identity and communication.

Re: identity, any URL could work, which is the premise of various identity initiatives, but they are struggling, because, as you point out, people already have a confirmable URL in the form of their email address.

Re: communication -- Twitter et al are consuming alot of the traffic formerly trapped in email. Open public discourse is a lot more interesting than closed, except for truly private communication. That's what email will become, although Twitter and others are def building private communication in, although not to the degree needed (see Scoble Doesn't Like Twitter's Direct Messages http://bit.ly/atiI).