Alexandra Samuel has a very nice piece in The Atlantic that uses the digital Sabbath urge-- her treatment's not as systematic as other recent pieces about the movement,
From Jesse Fox's Church of Facebook: I often complain about life’s little distractions; things like Facebook and a too-long to-do list and too many people to keep up
I've recently had a mild obsession with the Sandwalk, the path that Charles Darwin laid out on his estate, Down House, and which he walked for nearly forty
via flickr From Alan Macfarlane's Reflections on Cambridge: Cloisters are half open, as are the social and mental cloisters which exist everywhere in Cambridge. The great advantage of a
From Janet Browne's great Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, a description of Darwin's house at Down that is also a wonderful meditation on the ways action and
Via Pete Simon, I found this essay by Jeff Norton about making raising the visibility of editors as part of a larger effort to educate people (or maybe
UK-based futurists Andrew Curry, Victoria Ward and Sabine Jaccaud have recently completed a study of the future of the library. Ward's company Spark Now has a description of
Yahoo contributor Brad Sylvester interviews Jake Reilly, who just finished a digital sabbatical. Could you live without daily electronic conveniences -- Twitter, Facebook, email, texting and more --
At Peets Coffee this morning. via flickr
This from OLPC News is great: