Texting from the toilet
This number keeps going up, I can't help but notice. Texting from the Toilet: Mobile Computing Use and Acceptance in Public and Private Restrooms The proliferation of mobile
Sherry Turkle on Adam Lanza: “He’s my guy. These are my people.”
I'm at something of a loss to know what to make of this Michael Rosenwald piece about Adam Lanza. Rosenwald was assigned to cover the Sandy Hook shooting,
Keep Breathing, Never Watch a Loading Screen, and Don’t Switch-task, Multitask: iPhone lock screens as nudges
A couple months ago I wrote "Never Watch A Loading Screen" on a Post-It, took a picture of it, and made that picture the lock screen on my
Creating the feeling of connectedness
Add to the arguments about whether social media is "really" social or not: this new study by University of Berlin's Fenne große Deters and Arizona State's Matthias R. Mehl,
We have always been cyborgs, example 2,386
Another example of how humans have coevolved with our tools: Until around 250 years ago in the West, archaeological evidence suggests that most human beings had an edge-to-edge
Reviewing copy edits
Me and Davis this evening. via Flickr Posted with Blogsy
Copy edits!
Just got these in the mail…. via flickr Very exciting, in the way that only a vanishingly small number of grinding, attention-demanding tasks can be.
The next stage of the book
I got copyedits of my book today. I made the mistake of hitting some button that provided me with a summary of all the changes, and in a
Another commodification of contemplation data-point: Meditation fashion
Thank you, New York TImes: Meditation may be centered on a rejection of the material, but several savvy brands are aware that some material is essential, unless the
people who are “‘spiritual but not religious’ are more likely to suffer poor mental health”
When I was interviewing people who take digital Sabbaths, one of the ways they often described themselves was as spiritual, but not particularly religious. I puzzled over this