Korean edition of the book
Another fabulous cover, this time for the Korean edition of The Distraction Addiction (published by Sigongsa): I haven't had a bad one yet, even though the Dutch, Spanish, and
Chinese edition of The Distraction Addiction
The Chinese edition of The Distraction Addiction is out! You can order your copies from Locus Publishing, my Taiwanese publisher. There's also this cool promotional video: Taiwan's Commonwealth
“We can cake and eat it?”
The Chinese edition of my book is coming out later this month, and there’s a review and excerpt in Taiwan’s Commonwealth Magazine. Since I don’t read Chinese, I
Interview about contemplative computing on “The Secular Buddhist”
The latest issue of the Secular Buddhist Association's podcast features an interview with me about contemplative computing, The Distraction Addiction, and other things. I had a good time talking to SBA
If we ever do another edition of my book, I want this picture on the cover
I’ve had some great covers for my book (in several languages), but when I saw Marsel van Oosten’s fantastic photograph “Facebook Update,” I thought: That would make an awesome
Amazon, Hachette, and my book
Jeremy Greenfield has a good piece in The Atlantic about how the fight between Amazon and Hachette (the publishing conglomerate that owns Little, Brown, which published The Distraction
“Ça reste un livre très amusant à lire”
My book is reviewed on French literary Web site Books and Me: Le livre enfonce aussi beaucoup de portes ouvertes. Ces analogies et ces exemples sont vraiment amusants
More on defaulting to mindless behavior
The Edhasa blog has published the second installment of my piece on design, defaults, and mindless behavior, based on The Distraction Addiction. Nothing I haven't said before, but
“¿Cómo se diseñan las tecnologías para ser adictivas?”
I've written a series of posts that are appearing on the blog of the publishing house Edhasa, which is bringing out the Spanish-language edition of my book, The
French labor unions protect the right to disconnect
The Guardian reports (with that sardonic twist that seems inevitably to color British reportage on French subjects) that the French unions are negotiating labor agreements that protect worker