Comments on: User Interfaces for Event Streams http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2010/06/09/user-interfaces-for-event-streams/ Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:20:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tom http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2010/06/09/user-interfaces-for-event-streams/comment-page-1/#comment-135540 Tom Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:15:14 +0000 http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?p=2072#comment-135540 <p>People think they're so clever to invent things like Twitter.. grrrrrr. First it was the phone and mail.. then voicemail (pure evil). Then email.. then IRC, ICQ, Skype, XMPP, RSS, SMS, Twitter and Facebook.</p> <p>I think there's a long way to go... I'm not holding my breath. Maybe the answer is not to integrate all protocols into a seamless message queue system (thus enabling proliferation) but rather to <strong>phase out the superfluous protocols</strong>. I try to limit myself to email (and mail, xmpp, phone, voicemail when others insist). I just ditched RSS for lack of a good reader; doing the bookmarks-and-tabs thing instead :)</p> <p>Words to live by these days.... "Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation." -- E.W. Dijkstra, 2001</p> People think they're so clever to invent things like Twitter.. grrrrrr. First it was the phone and mail.. then voicemail (pure evil). Then email.. then IRC, ICQ, Skype, XMPP, RSS, SMS, Twitter and Facebook.

I think there's a long way to go... I'm not holding my breath. Maybe the answer is not to integrate all protocols into a seamless message queue system (thus enabling proliferation) but rather to phase out the superfluous protocols. I try to limit myself to email (and mail, xmpp, phone, voicemail when others insist). I just ditched RSS for lack of a good reader; doing the bookmarks-and-tabs thing instead :)

Words to live by these days.... "Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation." -- E.W. Dijkstra, 2001

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