A lot has been said about the death of email. I don’t think that email will actually die, but it will probably fragment into more sophisticated systems and applications (if it hasn’t already). I had some rare spare time recently, so I made my very own ‘blog art’ called ‘the death of email’. I sifted though some of my oldest emails (ouch) and put something together. Anyway, here is is. http://www.craigbellamy.net/death
Also, here is a good article by Kevin Werback called ‘Death by Spam ‘.
One-third of the 30 billion e-mails sent worldwide each day are spam. That’s 10 billion daily pitches for herbal Viagra, Nigerian scams, and genital-enlarging creams piling up in our inboxes. Neither legislation nor litigation against spammers has stemmed the tide, and they’re not going to have much of an effect in the future, either. It’s time to give up: Despite the best efforts of legislators, lawyers, and computer programmers, spam has won. Spam is killing e-ma
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You are right, Craig: email won’t die, but it will have to evolve. I am not sure into what form. No one medium that exists today will replace it, as far as I can see. VOIP is cited by some, but we still follow up calls on Skype with an email message, at least in business. I get 3,000 messages a week and could do without a lot of emails—but yet I persist with them, God help me. We may minimize our needs by shifting to other media, maybe via blogs for the more public matters, and the trend to using whitelists for email may be legitimized as a result.
Thanks Jack..3000 messages a week. now that is alot. i used to get about 30 a day. but now i only get a dozen or so. blogs are way more fun.
For this reason, I have gravitated toward blogs in a big way this year, after resisting them for a long time. They just seem to be a nice way to voice my thoughts, and to find like-minded people. Just like email once did, 10 or 15 years ago, when a fellow email account-holder was likely to be an educated colleague, not a spammer.
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[...] Algunos blogs suspenden los trackbacs por no poder hacer frente a la avalancha de spam. Nada nuevo bajo el sol: el spam ya ha ahogado el email. Internet cambia. Todavía hace poco, la mayor parte del tráfico en la red lo ocupaba el correo electrónico; pero los virus y sobre todo el spam están disuadiendo a los usuarios, que ven en el teléfono móvil un sustituto más rápido y cómodo, aunque más caro. Se calcula que diariamente se mueven 3 mil millones (¿es posible?) de emails; ¡una tercera parte es spam! Mil millones de correo basura. Los especialistas son pesimistas. También nosotros. ¿Alternativa? ¿Más y más herramientas antispam? Vía Craigbellamy [...]