Predictions for the Technology Industry in 2011
Predictions for the Technology Industry in 2012
A Brief History of the War on Spam
A disturbance in the force (replumbing the Internet)
Fighting Patent Trolls with LOT
Get Ready to Archive Everything (MSExchange.org, July 13, 2012)
The Inevitability of Archiving Social Networking Data
(Xconomy, March 27, 2013)
Assessing the Appalling Austin Enterprise Email Events
Big Opportunity for Detroit
Unsecured Data is Not Secure
It's All About Me:
Why Email Security Remains Elusive
Cloud Tweaks Q&A
Defending the Competition
A Disturbance in the Force
Can Customers Prepare for the Coming Round of Protocol Enhancements?
Dr. Strangedev, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ever-Increasing Diversity of Devices and Services
When Elephants Mate: An Eagle's View of HP's Autonomy Acquisition
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the cloud
Email As Infrastructure
Email is for Grownups:
Why Business is Skeptical of Social Networking
Resistance is Not Futile, but the Internet Wants to Dumb You Down
The End of the PC Era?
Spam or Anonymity: We Don't Have to Choose
Fundamental Complexity and the So-Called Death of Email
Encryption Follies, Infinitely Repeated
Goodbye Facebook! We barely noticed you were here!
Good Cloud, Bad Cloud
It's Interesting Why We're Boring
Thoughts On Hillary Clinton's Email
A Short History of Email's Future
Human Error: Living with the Weakest Link (Xconomy, March 10, 2015)
Why Things Need Clouds
Jobs' Google Job Gibberish: A Bullet Dodged
Information Technology at Its Best: Remembering John Ferguson
Lighten Up: It's Only Email!
The Long Wave Goodbye
More Eggs, More Baskets: The Importance of Diversity in Email Management
My Email Bankruptcy (a one-time event)
No Email Day? No Point, No Way
Has the Pendulum Stopped?
Email and Food: Essential, but not Status Symbols
One cheer for DKIM!
Oral Arguments on Patent Work
A Reflection on the Value of Minor Suffering
Paper and Airplanes: the Long Road to Obsolescence
Software Patents and the Hacker Ethic
Postel's Law: What the Internet Teaches Us About Life
Push BYOD Complexity to the Periphery
Email's Past, Present, and Future
Mimecast and Exchange Migration
Being Close from Afar:
Maximizing Value and Minimizing Risk with Remote Workers(Xconomy, November 30, 2012)
Shaping the Still-Evolving Internet
Email Isn't Dying, But it Could Be Healthier
RIP Secure Email?
Scary but Safe: Being in the Cloud is like... Being in the Clouds
The Shape of Email
Richard Stallman's Cloudy Vision
But This Internet Had Such Promise! (Xconomy, February 7, 2013)
Email Sucks, but Usefully
Tax the Internet!
The End of Personal Computers
The Scourge of Patent Trolls
The UnAmerican Internet
The Unfinished Business of Building the Internet
Welcome to My World, Mr. Zuckerberg
What is Email and How Does It Fit in the Bigger Picture?
A Taxonomy of Interpersonal Communications
Feeling Insecure About Security
Why Spam Might Be Good
Why is anyone still hesitant about moving their email services to the cloud?
Lessons from Wikileaks
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| In my early time at Mimecast, we had a campaign around simplifying email complexity. It featured the "Email Complexity Monster" shown at left, and I contributed a series of blog posts on the topic of "Why is Email So Complicated?" I never wrote nearly all the pieces I envisioned, but here are the ones I can still find, along with an introduction and outline. They're in no special order; the "Part #" is basically whimsical. |
Part 0: An IntroductionAn Outline of the Larger Work I Never Wrote
Part 146: We're Slaves to Our Attachments
Part 501: Human Communication is Absurdly Complex! (MSExchange.org, October 3, 2011)
Part 221: The Legacy of Punch Cards
Part 127: There's No Central Authority
Part 362: Too Many Lazy Idiots
Part 562: People Lie About What They Want
Part 101: There's Just Too Much Of It (MSExchange.org, September 19, 2011)
Part 114: Dumb Robots, Complex Vacations
Part 1: We Don't Even Know What It Is
Part 150: We Don't Know Who It's From (MSExchange.org, September 20, 2011)