This Google India video is a piece of storytelling genius. As the Indian Express explains, the ad talks about separation, friendship and the celebration of a reunion. It
The Swedish startup Memoto-- you might have heard about their super-successful Kickstarter campaign last year-- recently released a video about lifelogging, which is available on Vimeo: Lifeloggers from
Slate contributor Steve Kolowich writes about going through-- and often deleting-- old Facebook posts, likes, and messages: A wall post, comment, or "like" stops being useful once everyone
Gregg Zachary has a short, Proustian think-piece on the "remembrance of everything past" in IEEE Spectrum: “Information overload” once referred to the difficulty of absorbing intelligently the data
Maria Konnikova, author of the soon-to-be-published book Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, has a piece in the New York Times about the benefits of mindfulness. (Clearly Viking/Penguin's
The Memory Network has published a new essay by Nick Carr on computer versus human memory. This is a subject I've followed with great interest, and when I
If you're in London at the end of the month, check out the Digital Crystal exhibit at the Design Museum.ice crystals, via flickrThe Guardian explains the premise:It is,
Just came across an interview on CBC Spark with my former Microsoft Research colleague Abigail Sellen. She talks about lifelogging and what's wrong with the idea of total
Joe Kraus, a partner at Google Ventures, posted a talk last week about Slow Tech which I highly recommend. Here's the abstract: We are creating and encouraging a
The term "contemplative computing" may sound contradictory or complicated, but it's really pretty simple. Information technologies promise to make us smarter and more efficient, but all too often