“The problem is not email. The problem is people.”
Jon Mitchell (who wrote a nice piece on Digital Detox) on "How to Train Your Internet Friends:" The problem here at the dawn of the Information Age is
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
“A tool our parents could not have imagined has become a lifeline we can’t do without”
A new Time Magazine global survey of attitudes towards cellphones and connectedness reveals some not-too-surprising attitudes:A tool our parents could not have imagined has become a lifeline we
“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
Jack Cheng on the Slow Web: “Timely not real-time. Rhythm not random. Moderation not excess. Knowledge not information.”
James Fallows points out a great-- no, not great, really fantastic-- essay by Brooklyn-based designer and writer Jack Cheng, on the Slow Web: The Slow Web Movement is
A history I need: the concept of “real time”
Has anyone written an article on the term "real time"-- where it comes from, how it's been used in the last few decades, and what it means today?
Quote of the day: Stewart Brand on Spacewar
From his 1972 article on the early videogame: Spacewar as a parable is almost too pat. It was the illegitimate child of the marrying of computers and graphic
Introduction to Contemplative Computing: My talk at Lift11, Marseille
This is an illustrated copy of the talk I gave at the Lift11 conference in Marseille, France in July 2011. I was in a session titled "Slow," and