This is productivity?

By diondock

I read this post a while back ostensibly about some new tool named “gossip. It really got to me. If I understand correctly, when he makes a commit he gets

  • a message from Jabber
  • a message from twitter
  • an email
  • a note in Campfire
  • and possibly something in Trac

This really sounds like software-development-by-cool-web-technology-of-the-month. Does anyone really need all those notifications? Does anyone really even need any notification that a checkin occurred?