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In a Hack The Planet thread I draw a possible relation between declaring/managing a person's time availability (Group Calendaring - for meetings, etc.) and their level of interruptibility via EMail, Instant Messaging, etc.

• When I think about calendaring in a network economy my head explodes. Imagine you split your time between 2 different enterprises, and you might work from either of those physical sites, or from home (or Starbucks). You probably want to block off the big chunks of on-org-site time in your calendar. But if someone at one of those sites wants to schedule a meeting when you'll be onsite, how will they know which chunk of time works? And of course you might be willing to do a phone meeting from one site to the other...

• For this person I'm available for IM, for this person no but when email comes in from them set my general little alert and flag the message red, for this other person don't turn on the email alert at all (for everyone else mark as probable spam)...