Data-points on digital distraction: Dilbert and Daniel Pink
Two quick things: This Sunday's Dilbert: And this tweet from Daniel Pink: MT @tirosenberg: The Pope goes on Twitter, and a few months later loses all interest in
Have playlists and Skype killed culture shock?
I'm old enough to remember how traveling internationally in the 1970s and and 1980s meant communicating through letters or occasional expensive phone calls. At the same time, I've really
“Hey… These things just pop right off!”
That's from a classic Far Side cartoon featuring two bears in a circus, one of whom is holding a muzzle in his hands. It came to mind today
Do college students overestimate their time on Facebook?
Rey Junco has a new article suggesting that studies of the impact of Facebook on students need to account for the likelihood that self-reported usage times could be
Creating the feeling of connectedness
Add to the arguments about whether social media is "really" social or not: this new study by University of Berlin's Fenne große Deters and Arizona State's Matthias R. Mehl,
“This, I think, is what email wants most people to feel: powerless.”
Following my post last night about the irony of "addicting" social media, I ran across this piece asking "Is email evil?" It poses the Kevin Kelly-like question, what
Thought of the evening
If social media really is "addicting" (and I'm not entirely convinced that the term is correct) isn't it a strange sort of addiction where we are all each
Smartphones and sleepless nights in Northern Ireland
Problems keeping technology in balance aren't specific to the United States, according to Northern Ireland business Web site Business First Online: While technology ownership in Ireland has seen
Why don’t I Like-A-Hug?
A few days ago I came across this project in The Guardian: MIT students have developed a wearable extension to your social media existence that translates every virtual
“The future is in apps you don’t open”
Tech Crunch contributor Josh Costine argues that "the future is in apps you don't open:" “We’re going to move away from the era of ‘I have hundreds of