{"id":900,"date":"2007-10-02T22:32:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T04:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=900"},"modified":"2007-10-02T22:32:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T04:32:02","slug":"the_blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"The BlackBerry vine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2007\/10\/03\/sap-tech-ed-community-and-quality-of-interaction-or-is-research-in-motion-the-company-that-really-ushered-in-office-20\/\">wrote<\/a> something in passing today, about the BlackBerry, that snagged my attention: &#8220;RIM is the most important company in Office and Enterprise 2.0 in terms of behavioural change, worklife balance and so on. RIM manages you 24 hours a day.&#8221; This is a very different twist on &#8220;Enterprise 2.0,&#8221; which is typically interpreted to mean the transfer into the corporation of various social-software tools that have gained popularity outside the corporation: blogs, wikis, social networks, and so on. Maybe that&#8217;s a trick of the eye. Maybe what&#8217;s really going on &#8211; and I think this is what Governor is getting at &#8211; is the expansion of the corporation to encompass what used to lie outside it, what we once referred to as &#8220;our private lives.&#8221; Enterprise 2.0, when seen through the hypnotizing screen of the BlackBerry, does not amount to the liberation of corporate systems by personal systems but rather the colonization of personal systems by corporate systems. Society becomes a social network. My pocket vibrates, therefore I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Governor wrote something in passing today, about the BlackBerry, that snagged my attention: &#8220;RIM is the most important company in Office and Enterprise 2.0 in terms of behavioural change, worklife balance and so on. RIM manages you 24 hours a day.&#8221; This is a very different twist on &#8220;Enterprise 2.0,&#8221; which is typically interpreted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}