“not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer”
The Daily Mail recently had a piece about how not being on Facebook is starting to be seen as a sign that you're antisocial, or have something to
“email is the biggest killer of my productivity”
A couple months ago I deleted Facebook and Twitter from my iPhone. I was going through a "get rid of digital clutter" phase, and had already taken myself
Shiny happy people going offline
Jenna Wortham follows up her piece on unplugging with a post on a response she found interesting: Nathan Jurgenson's argument "against fetishizing the offline and becoming obsessed —
On tweeting during concerts, and the purpose of criticism
San Jose Mercury News music critic Richard Scheinin has a piece about tweeting during concerts:Earlier this month, I attended a concert by jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who is
“You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave”
Washington Post has an interesting profile of Katherine Losse, the author of a new inside look at Facebook.Not long after Katherine Losse left her Silicon Valley career and
“I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident”
Submitted without comment: "I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident," Texas college student Chance Bothe says he texted a friend just before
Philadelphia, unfortunately, will NOT have a sidewalk e-lane for textestrians
This is the lede buried in an AP article about distracted walking (something I wrote about last week): As an April Fool's Day joke with a serious message,
Texting while walking is a bad idea
The other day my wife showed me a video of a woman who falls into a fountain at a mall because she's distracted by texting. This isn't the
“ill post-modern commentary-type s*** about the nature of gadgets and relationships”
I hope what I'm doing is more profound that this*. Maybe I can crank up the Hunter S Thompson angle for the next book. *This is my all-time
New study: Multitasking may harm teenage girls’ social/emotion development, but real interaction cures it
Clifford Nass, Roy Pea, and the rest of the circle in the Stanford communications and education programs do some really interesting work on multitasking, our attitudes to computers,