“In other words, I need to unsubscribe from my old habits, and embrace new ones. It’s about time”. – Anna Spysz
Category Archives: Opt-Out
email’s inviting
Landing in my inbox this morning: “Many people have mentioned that they didn’t receive the Evite invitation we sent, so I’m sending this follow up email…”
Some Chose IRC
“I want to experiment with more slow-cooked communications, and with making deeper connections to the people I interact with.” – Gregory Brown It makes me smile to think about a mass migration out of Twitter into boring, timeless, technologies like email and IRC. IRC especially.
REmail
I’m so tired of doing this kind of thing in silos. Email is mine. Google+ is Google’s. In terms of location, I feel like I’m in a corporate setting in Google+, and I feel like I’m at home when I’m in email. The reason, aside from design differences, is that email is free-as-in-freedom. Its protocols …
Small Victories
Scott Adams on Opt-out
“Lately I’ve started worrying that I’m not getting enough boredom in my life….it’s worth keeping an eye on the link between our vanishing boredom and our lack of innovation.” – Scott Adams
Fadebook
“What I see instead is more properly the fading of the entire social media category, the victim of an ever-shortening event horizon.” – Bob Cringely
Dave Continues His Opt-Out
“There is a delete account command. I used it.” – Dave Winer
Asocial Tech
“Stop staring at that little screen in your hands, turn your head and have a look at the big screen of life. Technology is really far away from improving the social part of our lives, but it has all the power to do it. That’s what frustrates me even more.” – falseisnottrue
“The term for what I did is opt-out.”
Back in May, I wrote Turn On, Tune In, Opt Out. I’m increasingly confident that it’s the next big trend in technology. For the past 7 years, my bellwether for innovative, compelling, new technologies has been Dave Winer. Even before Google+ has been opened up to the general Google public – he’s taken a look …