{"id":14649,"date":"2009-04-28T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T21:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2009-04-28T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T21:22:22","slug":"when-is-an-email-inbox-not-an-email-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/when-is-an-email-inbox-not-an-email-inbox.html","title":{"rendered":"When is an email inbox not an email inbox?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it doesn’t actually contain email as most folks think of it — letters from Aunt Molly, correspondence with friends, business memos and the like — but system notifications, warnings, updates, etc.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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With every birthday reminder, bill confirmation, new friend, direct message, password recovery, and mailing list, the content of our inboxes becomes less and less a means of communication and more and more a record of all we do online. Email is the lowest common denominator of digital identity. It\u2019s our web keychain. It\u2019s the catch-all of our online lives.<\/p>\n

But if inboxes don\u2019t fundamentally change in order to adapt to their new role as the keeper of myriad transactions across the entire web, they\u2019ll be obsolete.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, yes, yes. We need stuff — GMail filters, but a lot more powerful — to aggregate, filter, shuffle, analyze, and make use of all that info. We need to know about it all, and email is the way it’s getting to us. We just need a better way to turn that data into information<\/em>. And the email system seems to be the way to do it.<\/p>\n

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(via Google Blogoscoped<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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When it doesn’t actually contain email as most folks think of it — letters from Aunt Molly, correspondence with friends, business memos and the like — but system notifications, warnings, updates, etc.  With every birthday reminder, bill confirmation, new friend, direct message, password recovery, and mailing list, the content of our inboxes becomes less and … Continue reading “When is an email inbox not an email inbox?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10198,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/14\/the_inbox_and_i.html","url_meta":{"origin":14649,"position":0},"title":"The Inbox and I","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Aug-06 7:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"Scattershot article about how the way we deal with our e-mail is reflective of our lives. 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