Larry Rosen on technology breaks
Cal State Dominguez Hills psychology professor Larry Rosen has a forthcoming book, iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us. A little preview from
“Confessions of a Tweeter:” count me sympathetic and skeptical
"Writer, editor, and Web professional" (who isn't a Web professional these days?) Larry Carlat has a New York Times Magazine piece about how Twitter destroyed his life: It
Great sign: Pay Attention
Via Offlining, a timely reminder. And no, cities aren't putting these up; it's more like a piece of guerilla marketing (though as an avid reader of William Gibson,
Apparently I speak French…
...or I do in this interview, anyway! Always a little odd to see your name attached to languages you don't speak.
Jobs biography in the SF Chronicle
Dan Zigmond has an excellent, thoughtful review of the new Steve Jobs biography in the San Francisco Chronicle. Clearly there's a history of Zen in Silicon Valley that
On the success of Angry Birds
My wife shot me a link to this article: Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience Recently clients have asked
Steve Jobs and Buddhism
A long, interesting piece on PLOS Blogs' NeuroTribe asks, "What kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs?" Not in the sense of lineage or doctrinal belief-- he was most
Once again, XKCD makes an excellent point
As always. The underlying point that today's parents (like me) grew up with MTV, video games, computers, and other weapons of mass distraction is a good one. For
Air, Food, Water, Internet?
People under 30 think they're the new essentials, according to Cisco's new Connected World Technology Report. The study surveyed 2,800 college students or young adults in the U.S., U.K.,
Contemplative computing talk on YouTube
Just discovered that the good folks at Lift 11 put the Marseille talks on YouTube. Here's mine!