Clearly, Patrick Marshall is someone who is critiquing the shadows on the wall. As if the I-have-never-tried-Twitter subtext wasn’t enough, Marshall closes his GCN Insider column with:
That’s in contrast to new communications technologies such as voice mail and e-mail. Both technologies have made huge changes in the ways people communicate with one another and have brought clear benefits to both our work and personal lives. Those benefits have given those technologies some degree of staying power. As for blogs, the jury is still out. Some of us are skeptical about blogs, at least as journalistic tools, but others have jumped into them with abandon. We’ll see.
Given that the new communication technologies of email (1965) and voice mail (1979) are so influential in changing people’s lives, I wonder where the World Wide Web (1992) stands in Marshall’s view of IT history? But then again, it is only two years older than blogging, so the jury is still out.
This is the perspective from “the leading provider of integrated information and media for the government information technology market?”