Selfies and selfishness, or, Google is not a vitamin
Sherry Turkle recently published an op ed in the New York Times about selfies and "The Documented Life." In it, she argues that the focus on taking selfies,
Webki’s list of free mindfulness apps
Webki, a London-based group about which I can find very little-- their Web site doesn't say who works there, their Flickr account has pictures from one event in
Meditation affects gene expression
This new study is pretty amazing: With evidence growing that meditation can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body.
A note against the “Don’t blame smartphones” argument
Recently, Mercury News columnist Michelle Quinn argued that we shouldn't "blame smartphones for turning us into the digitally dazed." I don't buy the notion that our phones have
Smartphones behave like kids: A new video shows how
For a while now I've been talking about how smartphones behave like kids. Recently I got some actual kids together to illustrate the point. This video was a
Another radio show I missed
My interview with Bob Edwards ran yesterday. If you listen to Sirius XM, you might be able to catch it. I missed it, keeping my perfect record of
Adding qualia to quantity: Linda Stone’s idea of the Essential Self
Linda Stone, who gave us the idea of continuous partial attention and email apnea, has a new essay outlining her idea for an Essential Self movement: The entire
Tech Timeout
Foresters, a Canadian life insurance company (can one think of an institution that sounds more stable and grounded?) just released a "Tech Timeout" survey looking at household Internet
J. Walter Thompson’s top trends for 2014
J. Walter Thompson has just released its list of top ten trends for 2014. Two of them, "Raging Against the Machine" and "Mindful Living," connect with contemplative computing.
“We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs”
From a 1999 Douglas Adams essay (via BBC's Tom Chatfield): We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a