{"id":1376,"date":"2009-05-06T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2009-05-07T01:57:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T06:57:41","slug":"convergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1376","title":{"rendered":"Convergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Lessig has been hailed as a man of brilliance and vision.  With his recent innovation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/lifestyle\/news\/2004\/06\/63733\" target=_blank>e-mail bankruptcy<\/a>, I am convinced.<\/p>\n<p>I have unreturned e-mail going back almost two years now, and I blame the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/19\">iPhone<\/a>.  I used to come home, check my e-mail, and respond to the most pressing items right away.  Now, I can read my e-mail wherever I am.  I can deal with the contents mentally, but I&#8217;m not always in a position to respond right away.  When I get home now, I look at all of my new e-mail and say &#8220;Oh, I read those already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a similar convergence\/replacement effect with Facebook.  Once I joined, I all but stopped blogging.  A daily status update to my 200 closest friends felt like enough of a public presence.  Plus, it was less effort on my part, more likely to generate feedback, more likely to reach people I knew, and was more interactive.   But my voice was curtailed.  I was part of a community, but it wasn&#8217;t my own space.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to continue with Facebook, but I&#8217;m back on the blog as well.  It just took me a few weeks to sort out this particular convergence.  Compared to the e-mail\/iPhone problem, I worked this one out relatively quickly.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have about twenty unreturned e-mails on Facebook as well.  Ah, convergence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Lessig has been hailed as a man of brilliance and vision. With his recent innovation of e-mail bankruptcy, I am convinced. I have unreturned e-mail going back almost two years now, and I blame the iPhone. I used to come home, check my e-mail, and respond to the most pressing items right away. Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-information-literacy","category-meta","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}