“Confessions of a Tweeter:” count me sympathetic and skeptical
"Writer, editor, and Web professional" (who isn't a Web professional these days?) Larry Carlat has a New York Times Magazine piece about how Twitter destroyed his life: It
Explaining Digital Sabbaths
I've been doing a lot of interviews the last couple weeks for the book, and I don't think I've had a single one that hasn't revealed something interesting
Quote of the day: Susan Maushart
From the opening pages of Susan Maushart's The Winter of Our Disconnect, a book I picked up this winter in Cambridge (thank you, Waterstone's 3 for 2 mix and
Last thoughts on Digital Cassandras and sabbaths
I've spent the last week working through the literature criticizing the effects of the Internet on our brains, the balance between our inward (private, contemplative) ;and outward (public,
Digital sabbaths
For the last day I've been reading about the digital sabbath movement, using it to try to better understand critiques of digital culture and life: how people self-diagnose
Hamlet’s Blackberry
A few weeks ago I read William Powers' book Hamlet's Blackberry, but with the move and everything couldn't really write much about it. Still, it's worth noting. Powers'
Talk about contemplative computing
This is a Prezi outlining my contemplative computing work. I initially created it for a talk at Microsoft Research, but expect I'll be updating it over the next couple