.. will you use email as much, or do you think you'll use IM and blogs more often to communicate ?

When it comes to the workplace, my guess is that once several major organizations begin to demonstrate the effectiveness of project or research-oriented blogs, there will be a rush to a tipping point. 

Blogs in the workplace will, I think, come to be viewed as centralized bulletin boards for purposeful work, and group dynamics will take care of all but the most extreme cases of inappropriate use .. just as many comment communities on existing blogs have figured out how to deal with the behaviour of trolls.

Here's a peek into the future .. via the Globe and Mail pass-through of an AP story

Text messaging on rise with young people
MARTHA IRVINE
Associated Press


CHICAGO — E-mail is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder — a parent, teacher or a boss — or to receive an attached file. But increasingly, the former darling of high-tech communication is losing favour to instant and text messaging, and to the chatter generated on blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

The shift is starting to creep into workplace communication, too.

"In this world of instant gratification, e-mail has become the new snail mail," says 25-year-old Rachel Quizon from Norwalk, Calif. She became addicted to instant messaging in college, where many students are logged on 24/7.

Much like home postal boxes have become receptacles for junk mail, bills and the occasional greeting card, electronic mailboxes have become cluttered with spam. That makes them a pain to weed through, and the problem is only expected to worsen as some e-mail providers allow on-line marketers to bypass spam filters for a fee.

Beyond that, e-mail has become most associated with school and work.

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