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James Governor, riffing on Tim Bray’s blog post On Communication, coins the idea of a Cambrian explosion in forms of communication. Both posts are very much worth reading.

The question at hand is whether or not it’s difficult to decide which form of communication to use for a particular message. I think my answer would be, “at times.” Generally speaking, a lot of factors go into those decisions, but they rarely take me long to make.