Tim McCormick on “Healthier Information”
Too busy to write anything substantive, so I'll just point you to Tim McCormick's fine presentation on "Healthier Information," which I plan to work into the book. Healthier
How do you choose print versus digital versions of books?
I'm gathering some information about how people make the choice to read digital versus printed versions of books, newspapers, and the like. What I'm trying to do is
My interview on ABC Encounter
Last week I was on an Australian radio show, Encounter, in an episode on "Worship 2.0." via flickr I appear about 40 minutes into the hour-long show, but
Who holds the keys to weapons of mass distraction?
From Jesse Fox's Church of Facebook: I often complain about life’s little distractions; things like Facebook and a too-long to-do list and too many people to keep up
“the most important role that publishers perform is the one they are strangely reluctant to celebrate”
Via Pete Simon, I found this essay by Jeff Norton about making raising the visibility of editors as part of a larger effort to educate people (or maybe
Living offline for 90 days
Yahoo contributor Brad Sylvester interviews Jake Reilly, who just finished a digital sabbatical. Could you live without daily electronic conveniences -- Twitter, Facebook, email, texting and more --
The criticism of One Laptop Per Child, in cartoon form
This from OLPC News is great:
FarmVille: As cool, and as social, as writing chain letters
Benjamin Jackson, a New York-based game designer and writer, has a terrific essay in The Atlantic arguing that "too many video games treat players like rats in a
A data-point against the idea of digital natives
The concept of the digital native bothers me for some reason. A tiny little bit of it might be "you kids get off my lawn" curmudgeonliness. Mainly it's
Different animals playing with iPads: The video you’ve been waiting for
Kind of peripheral to my project, but still, hilarious. (It's even funnier than the "Baby Thinks a Magazine is an iPad That Doesn't Work.")