Sign of the times: Technology and “46 Reasons My Three Year Old Might be Freaking Out”
I love this list of "46 Reasons My Three Year Old Might be Freaking Out" (which I stumbled on via this Slate article), and I can't help but notice
“140 characters may not seem like a lot, but we will never run out of things to say”
XKCD does the math to answer the question, "How many unique English tweets are possible? How long would it take for the population of the world to read
“the way we compute is… changing the way we sit”
Steelcase recently conducted a global study of computing and posture, research meant to inform their next generation of office furniture. Their conclusion: As smartphones and tablets -- computers
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Yes, they do. (An anti-distracted driving ad campaign in Alberta, via Jezebel.)
I can’t un-know the existence of the word “fondleslab”
--which feels to me like the most perfect linguistic train wreck ever, a combination of being vividly expressive, deeply creepy, and yet laser-precise in its meaning. According to
Facebook “exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does”
I've been reading the page proofs for The Distraction Addiction, and should be done with it in a few days. As with any 250-page book, there are a
The price of attention
Esther Dyson suggests one way to deal with the attention burden of e-mail: make people who want your attention pay for your time. The system still lets other
National Day of Unplugging
Get ready: it's coming up March 1-2. Posted with Blogsy
Distraction is “the curse of the postmodern age”
Richard Foster, from a 2011 interview: If superficiality is the curse of the modern age, what's the curse of the postmodern age?Distraction. With the Internet and entertainment, so
“Technology… has simply exposed how boring your work and your life used to be”
Just when I was starting to respect the Harvard Business Review blogs, along comes this: Technology has not ruined your work-life balance, it has simply exposed how boring