Other ambient sounds, courtesy of Adam Greenfield
In addition to having cool tattoos and a great book on ubiquitous computing, Adam points me to a couple other awesome ambient sound sites: You are listening to,
Background noise generator: Rainy Cafe Machine
For some people, the familiar but not-too-loud background noise of spaces like cafes can help them focus. But what do you do when you're not in a cafe?
The new must-have digital accessory? A double bed for you and your devices
So says the Daily Mail, though I don't guarantee that this is not an April Fools' Day joke: [T]he digitisation of childhood appears to be leading to changes
Self-experiments with tweeting and whitelists
All too true: The graphic comes from a post by Nicholas Baudrot about giving up Twitter for Lent, and deciding not to go back: After two days without
Pixels versus print? Follow this handy chart!
For my book I interviewed a number of people about how they chose books versus digital media. I found that for smart readers-- people who read a lot,
Don’t like your your phone “buzzing like a beehive with status updates”? Try it on your face!
This observation from The Verge's Ellis Hamburger: Let's face it: we're all pretty horrible at turning off push notifications on our smartphones. You install an app, give it
“If I keep this Internet crap up… I’ll lose roughly a novel and a half to my Internet distractions. That ain’t cute.”
Alex Mar talks about how the Internet is invading the writers' retreat, with predictable and lamentable results. Residencies have long been the writer’s last defense against the distractions
Sergey was right, they ARE emasculating! Smartphone-using men now pee sitting down
Cellphone use has made people forget how to walk in straight lines, walk more slowly, and of course become threats to public safety while driving. Last week, several
This is what I’ll be like wearing Google Glass
This is brilliant. Via Creative Good, whose post about Google Glass I'll be writing about soon.
On the “slowness” of slow tech: Is it about specs, or about experience?
The first big talk I gave about contemplative computing was at a conference on technology whose theme was "Slow." Last night I revisited that ground: I spoke at