Are you using Semaphore or do you still speak in documents?

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:17:00 GMT

Many of you will I’m sure of heard about Office’s recent demise, initially coined I think by Steve Gillmor on the Gillmor Gang as ‘Office is dead’. I however have a different inkling about its demise. I (and others) have noticed a rapid decay in the use of Office like products, to this effect I haven’t even installed a copy of office software on my current system (6 months old).

I remember when I used create documents in word for all sorts of work related reasons, but that has completely tailed off over the last several years, to the point where I can’t actually remember what my last word processing document was. Now this isn’t a desktop vs online word processing post, what I think might be happening here is that I no longer produce documents. Rather I communicate in a series of paragraphs and one liners using the following : My blog, Twitter, Social sites like Facebook, Numerous online tools/wikis for projects/events and all manner of other things and occasionally even email (which is also decreasing).

Because these forms of communication are digital packets rather than documents I have no need for document based software. This to me is the crunch, this is where the revolution is happening it isn’t Office thats dying it’s documents that are becoming extinct. Are you converting to packet based communication? Are you also noticing the reduction in packet size with the increase of packet frequency that I am experiencing?

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Are you using Semaphore or do you still speak in documents?