Author: Carl Setzer

A blogger blogging from just north of Seattle.

Email: Can’t Live With It, Or Without It – Forbes.com

Carl Setzer

Email: Can’t Live With It, Or Without It – Forbes.com

Quite an interesting article on the value of email, and the costs of keeping it running. It is incomplete, though. She talks about the costs of maintaining ailing systems, and how few companies are tracking them adequately. This is not put in context, however. Are these all systems? Are we talking about email systems that are not adquately maintained? Are obsolete and unsupported? It is, in the end, a one point article that brings up a number of good management questions…even if it provides not answers.

The Cyber World

Carl Setzer

It’s sometimes hard to imagine, but I remember a world without PC’s, iPods, cellphones and the like. Though it really wasn’t that long ago, in some ways it was a lifetime. The impact of these, and related, technologies on our culture has been immense. These devices have changed the way we date, flirt, communicate, learn, yadda yadda. My life has kept me in the thick of it. I love these devices, and have been an early adopter (as much as I could afford to be, at least).

Back in the mid-80’s, a good friend of mine crafted a bulletin board with his Commodore 64 (ah, now there was a machine). This, the predecessor of the blog, the webpage, etc, was so cool a way to communicate…to me, at least. I wasn’t any cheaper than a phone call, and a hell of a lot more expensive than a letter. My poor dad…and his phone bill! I did brutalize it with his first subscription to Prodigy, too.

The changes since have been mind-blowing, and thrilling. And I’m looking forward to seeing all that’s to come!