“I wanted to figure out what the internet was ‘doing to me,’ so I could fight back”
Verge writer Paul Miller (the Verge does some excellent work now, in case you haven't noticed) spent a year offline, and writes about the experience. It's sort of
Texting while walking, coming through!
Via Gizmodo, this nice piece of improv / tech commentary:
Time managers were “overwhelmed and… burnt out,” while attention manager “reported more flow states.”
This from an interview with Linda Stone: The people I spoke with who worked in office jobs typically said they managed their time. Many of them had taken
“we are disenfranchised by the concepts of invisibility and disappearance:” Arguments against invisible interfaces
For a long time I've been suspicious about the desire to make interfaces "invisible" or "intuitive." Mainly I think that, when it comes to interacting with the world
“I don’t think we want our bodies to be UIs:” wrong ways to think about wearables
John Pavlus argues in Technology Review that, contrary to the vision of Google Glass and designers who imagine being able to automatically trigger actions by just doing unobtrusive
Philippe Starck: “I live with myself in front of my white page.”
What I love about this Philippe Starck interview is that it flies completely in the face of the modern idea that good ideas come out of endless networking,
Enjoy your “friends” while you have them, Selfish Dinner Girl. They’re having lots of fun without you.
I don't have much to add to Evan Seliger's Wired piece about Facebook Home and the message of its advertising videos: to be cool, worthy of admiration and emulation,
How restrictive contracts turn electronics into prosthetics we can’t completely control
One of the points I make in the book is that one source of our dissatisfaction with smartphones and other personal electronics is that we instinctively want to
More on my whitelist iPhone experiment
A friend of mine asks for clarification about my recent ringtone experiment: So, explain the silent ringtone a bit more? How do you do it, and doesn't it
“Choose carefully, because you’re choosing your future brain”
Mark McGuiness admits that "Yes, the Internet is Changing Your Brain," but then does what I wish more writers would do: ask what that means, and what good