On 25/02/2011, at 10:21 PM, Matt Willsher wrote:
> 'Everyone' hasn't been using email for decades and the the email model
> has problems which centralised systems can solve

Centralised systems aren't required to solve many of the problems with email. 
The inertia of so many email installations is too much to overcome, but that 
merely means the new system needs to have those fixes not that the entire model 
needs to be changed.

> You mean it allows the reader to draw their own conclusions by
> presenting an unbiased view? Heaven forbid!

The problem with "fair and balanced" is when it has 50/50 weighting for issues 
that are really 90/10. Email has the weight of history and it is on the 90 side 
of the argument.

Facebook is the one proposing the centralised model, they're the ones with the 
privacy issues, and their design is the one that is questionable - and there's 
absolutely no problem whatsoever with pointing that out.

Anyway that was my comment on the comic, and there's room in the world for 
multiple presentations from multiple perspectives.

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