“Communication is the key to an email sabbatical”
That may sound contradictory at first glance, but it's sound advice from Microsoft Research scientist danah boyd about taking an August email sabbatical: Communication is the key to
Disconnected days in New York
Last week, I took a few days off and took my son to New York City. (I had a workshop in DC, and needed to meet my publisher
Another unplugged thing: Unplugged weddings
The one good thing that's come of my paying any attention to Sean Parker's post-wedding social media tempest is that, via New York Magazine, I found out about
Another unplugged holidays campaign
Last month I mentioned the Saint Vincent and Grenadines digital detox tourism campaign. Recently I got an advance copy of an info graphic created for a Expedia's UK
What’s in a name, part 2? On the idea of a digital “detox”
Mark Riva, one of my semi-regular Twitter correspondents (followers isn't quite the right word, nor is friend), raises a good question about the term digital detox: [View the
“It’s a religious ritual that even an atheist can love”
This evening I stumbled on this 2011 Tablet essay by Jennifer Bleyer about Sabbaths, digital and otherwise: But our greatest enjoyment was simply being suspended in a day
“I don’t need to be controlled by the tyrannical upticks of email counts on my mobile devices”
John O'Keefe, writing in This Ignatian Life about going on retreat: Before I left, I turned off all my email and vowed not to check it for 7
A national tourism campaign featuring digital detox
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a Caribbean nation consisting of a small chain of islands, ran a tourism campaign in 2012 built around the idea of getting away
Abraham Heschel on entertainment versus celebration
I argue in chapter 6 of my book that there's an important distinction between recreation and restoration, and that it's better for us to pursue the second rather than the first. This
“We’re blaming people who are merely responding to social demands”
Author Janet Kornblum makes a good point about digital Sabbaths: Chastising folks for being too connected, too often, is a lot like scolding young women for being too obsessed about their looks.