So I sort of managed the relations together to get a wiki by SocialText running. Its functionality fitted wonder-well the team behaviour and e-mail is the key, the link, the lowest common denominator, the first interface to digital information - Internet being the zero and a browser second - and Internet communication.
I deal with documents, with information and not that much with data. Information is funny. SocialText uses the screen as note-flake, editor, word processor, mash-up, dash- and drawing board. The functionality is aimed at processing: create formats, copy, watch etc.
My wife e-mails, kids hyve and message. My colleagues e-mail and surf a limited collection Internet pages - nothing wrong with it; but a set of pages can be manipulated and has to in times like ours of over-information.
Whatever interface you want between reality and a system or tool - and the SocialText tool comes close to a system with some basic structure of workplaces, basic collections and naming -, it has to be based on e-mail!
More arguments to follow. Tired now of typing my mind. My mind is a vast multi-verse and lost of knowledge about. In your e-mail public goods get private unless you give away creative commons. ‘your e-mail’…. ‘you re-mail’…. ‘you re mail’, ‘your e-mail’, ‘you are mail’, ‘you r mail’, ‘yourmail’, ‘youmail’ …. You mail. Yes you mail! Yes you will mail. Yes you will e-mail; E-mail; You-Mail!
