One problem with emails (and blogs, too)
February 4th, 2008 by misterarthurConfused of Calcutta writes today about the importance of emphasis. That’s something easy to do verbally, but not easy to do in written form without using tricks like making the type bold or italicized. Having had the tonality of my emails misunderstood in the past, I know exactly what he’s writing about.
“Try it…
I Didn’t Say You Stole My Money.
I Didn’t Say You Stole My Money.
I Didn’t Say You Stole My Money.
I Didn’t Say You Stole My Money.
I Didn’t Say You Stole My Money.
I Didn’t Say You Stole My Money.
I Didn’t Say You Stole My Money.
My thanks to Schwern at for the example, written about here.”
February 4th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
sounds like a market opportunity. largest application in digital space and it is not functional for a huge part of common communication. perhaps it should be left alone for the function it already performs well but can you add richer elements to upgrade the form? is that what text/im are for since you can instantly correct misinterpretations? or can email be saved for higher communication content.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Mr. Ed is right about the opportunity. Perhaps at some point in the future, a new technological innovation can leapfrog the ones mentioned above and resolve this problem. Ultimately, it will probably require a revolutionary change rather than evolutionary change of the current methods to ultimately overcome this problem. That said, can we ever get past it? A degree of the same problem can occur on between 2 people during a face-to-face conversation.