Mindful Twittering
Lori Deschene has a nice article in Tricycle on "Ten Mindful Ways to Use Social Media." I won't republish the whole list and its annotations, but just note
Speaking tomorrow on spaces, media and collaboration
I'm giving a talk tomorrow at the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at City University London. Essentially it's a live performance of the paper spaces article, though
My last couple days
This is what's been keeping me busy: a new map of the project, which I'm converting into the Prezi. It's a fabulous example of one of those things
The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator: example of mind wandering, or distraction?
The distinction is one I've been thinking about today. How does it appy to the Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator? (thanks, Heather!)
Ommwriter and the effort to create distraction-free software
I'm starting to look at software that bills itself as distraction-free, Zen or otherwise protecting your ability to concentrate. I've used a Mac word processor called Write Room
Computing and emotions
There's a nontrivially-sized literature on this that I've got to get into, it seems; I'm reading a recent article arguing against traditional scientific, objective views of emotions-- i.e.,