Several years ago, Matthew Crawford published Shop Class as Soul Craft, a great book about materiality, skilled labor, and the meaning of work. Now, in between fixing motorcycles
Hugh Macleod writes about the rise of an "Antidote Economy" in response to the "*brave* new world of stimulus oversupply.... It’s an increasingly huge cultural phenomenon, simply because
Because I can't cover the whole world, I just found out about Offtime, a project out of Berlin to develop an app to manage calls, texts, etc. while
Kingston Business School professor Emma Russell has been researching e-mail interruptions [pdf] and strategies (good and bad) for dealing with them. Science Daily reports that Russell conducted in-depth
I've written lots about the question of whether photography is a distraction from real life, or a way of experiencing it more deeply. It's a debate that plays
Mother London, one of those branding / marketing / design / media consultancies that's so hip it's impossible to tell what they actually do (but they have offices
New York Times blogger KJ Dell'Antonia has a piece on the Motherlode parenting blog about Memi, a new smart bracelet that aims to selectively inform users-- in this
"In its latest ad, with an "if you can't beat em, join 'em" message, Apple isn’t carving aspirational ground, it’s caving to people's vices," Jennifer Rooney declares. She's
Sherry Turkle recently published an op ed in the New York Times about selfies and "The Documented Life." In it, she argues that the focus on taking selfies,
Recently, Mercury News columnist Michelle Quinn argued that we shouldn't "blame smartphones for turning us into the digitally dazed." I don't buy the notion that our phones have