best in the world at, a deep understanding of their economic engine and the core values they hold with deep passion. They then use technology to enhance these pre-existing variables, never as a replacement. "

From Jim Collins web site.  Newsweek, April 29, How Great Companies Tame Technology

tion. They check their eMail rarely ... probably once every few days, e.g. for messages from their teachers ... but keep dozens of constantly-open IM windows on their screens, as their "persistent chat" with those with whom they want to communicate. They're in control of their online lives. Technology has disappeared into the background for them."

"I've experienced enough to have become convinced that a witch's brew of revolutionary personal communications tools - IM, Groove and Weblogs - and their evolutionary mutations and outgrowths, collectively represent the "post-eMail" world .. a world in which we will all live, sooner or later. Private, public, and somewhere in-between." (found at McGee's Musings)

Excellent!!! from Ray to John Udell in an article on Whats Wrong with Email!