[SIGCIS-Members] Latest on Email Invention incl. my article

[Dave Walden]

Vittal and Pogran met with the reporter from 
Boston Magazine last week to try to set her 
straight before she wrote her story about 
SA.  She originally contacted Van Vleck.


At 03:49 PM 4/17/2012, Thomas Haigh wrote:
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>Hello SIGCIS members,
>
>You may remember some flurries of interest a 
>while ago in the “Inventor of Email” saga. The 
>happy outcome was that the Washington Post had 
>asked me to write an article outlining the 
>actual history of email and putting the claims 
>of V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai in context.
>
>That never took place, but the article is now 
>published in the blog section of the SIGCIS 
>website as 
><http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai>www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai. 
>Thanks to all those who contributed, and I’m 
>sorry if this won’t have the visibility and 
>impact we’d anticipated with the promised Post 
>website publication. For myself I am glad to be 
>done with this and hope the article can still help to put the record straight.
>
>A  number of people have asked me what happened 
>to the article. There’s an outline of the whole 
>confusing saga in a letter I wrote to the 
>Washington Post ombudsman, 
><http://www.sigcis.org/node/330>www.sigcis.org/node/330. 
>Basically I don’t know. The article was 
>accepted, but just before publication something 
>killed the planned series of four articles on 
>the episode (including one by Noam Chomsky!!) 
>The only one of the four to be published, by 
>Dave Crocker, is a useful capsule history of 
>Internet email but was published without 
>reference to Ayyadurai and attracted just two 
>comments. 
><http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/a-history-of-e-mail-collaboration-innovation-and-the-birth-of-a-system/2012/03/19/gIQAOeFEPS_story.html>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/a-history-of-e-mail-collaboration-innovation-and-the-birth-of-a-system/2012/03/19/gIQAOeFEPS_story.html
>
>Ayyadurai’s public relations firm is, at least 
>as of a couple of weeks ago, still trying to 
>interest journalists in his story so perhaps we 
>can anticipate more press coverage to come. 
>Personally I am glad to be done with this.
>
>Other news from the world of email invention:
>
>·         Another journalist featured Ayyadurai 
>as inventor of email, even after the Post’s 
>retraction. Callie Crossley on WGBH ran a full 
>interview segment: 
><http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Callie-Crossley-Show-855/episodes/Mon-31212Innovation-Hour-USPS-Goes-Electric-36918>http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Callie-Crossley-Show-855/episodes/Mon-31212Innovation-Hour-USPS-Goes-Electric-36918. 
>
>·         Gizmodo ran a lengthy debunking. The 
>quoting of one word insults from anonymous 
>sources is not really fair, and you could argue 
>that putting “crazy” and “man” a few words apart 
>in the title is prejudicial. But overall it does 
>a good job of investigating. 
><http://gizmodo.com/5888702/corruption-lies-and-death-threats-the-crazy-story-of-the-man-who-pretended-to-invent-email>http://gizmodo.com/5888702/corruption-lies-and-death-threats-the-crazy-story-of-the-man-who-pretended-to-invent-email 
>
>·         Dave Crocker has set up a website and 
>associated discussion list to try to preserve 
>the actual history of email. 
><http://www.emailhistory.org>www.emailhistory.org.
>·         Ayyadurai’s book “The EMAIL 
>Revolution: How to Build Brands and Create Real 
>Connections,” is available for preorder on 
>Amazon for just $16.47. Publisher is Allworth 
>(rather than Norton as suggested by Gizmodo). 
>Interesting subtitle there. 
><http://www.amazon.com/The-EMAIL-Revolution-Brands-Connections/dp/1581159803>http://www.amazon.com/The-EMAIL-Revolution-Brands-Connections/dp/1581159803
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Tom Haigh
>
>SIGCIS Chair, <http://www.sigcis.org>www.sigcis.org
>www.tomandmaria.com/tom
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