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A few months ago, Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook, COO) declared at a conference. "Email is probably going away." My immediate reaction was: "Umm...ok." I knew what she meant, but still disagreed with the phrasing. A lot of communication that would've been email for me in the past was now posts to my Facebook wall or messages in my FB Messages (which is really just a closed, ok-ish webmail client.) Some of this was for the better (e.g. Wall posts), some of it was definitely for the worse. Here's what happens when someone sends me a FB Message (!!rant warning!!) I end up opening a message in my gmail account. Read it; occasionally hit reply before remembering this won't work.... Grr Go to Facebook and complete the communication.... 3-4 completely unnecessary clicks And if someone forks a message thread, it results in a huge mess that generally makes me want to punch my computer screen.... . Whoomp! The need for a system that reliably delivers text and more t...

I wrote most of this 4 weeks ago, but came back and hit "Publish" on it today, so its a little raw...its been that kinda month. :) The long weekend allowed me to catch up on the entire " The Web is Dead " series of articles, and the blogosphere brouhaha that followed. Its really great material to think about. Here's the original Wired article(s) from Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff. My favorite analysis and conclusion was this one from Jason Fry at Niemanlab.org Also great: a related series of articles, are from last week's Economist. This is a summary re: the balkanization of the Internet . Fred Wilson has a really clear take on it as well. The series forced me to think a little longer about what's motivating this behavior from the companies and individuals driving this change, and analyze my own behavior as well. Eventually though, the line from this Richter Scale's song (" In the Valley ") is what stayed with me: "Open or close...