Internet as diversion: New Pew Internet study
A new Pew Internet survey reports that "any given day," 53% of all the young adults ages 18-29 go online for no particular reason except to have fun
Lose your mind and come to your senses
via flickr
Bytes of China
Via James Fallows, I just found Bytes of China, written by a Fulbright scholar doing fieldwork in China. It's great work: check out this post on supercomputing in
danah boyd on transparency, information, and interpretation
Via Clay Johnson (whose Information Diet I need to read) I came across danah boyd's talk "Transparency is not enough:" The key idea: Transparency is important, but it's
Hipstamatic and social picture sharing
My anniversary is coming up soon: my wife and I got married on New Year's Eve fifteen years ago. One of the things we did at the wedding
Digital butlers
Occasionally over the last few years I've had clients who had butlers. Not many wealthy people seem to have butlers any more-- rich people have assistants, chiefs of
On the double-edged sword of safety systems
The new report on the crash of Air France flight 447 concludes that pilot error was responsible for the crash-- or more accurately, that the pilot's mental model
Secrets of the blogging forest monks talk is now online
My TEDxYouth@Monterey talk is now up on YouTube. Thanks very much to Bob Cole and the rest of the CSU Monterey Bay team for a great event!
Another add to the pile: “Infinite Reality”
While I've read most of the technical articles that Jeremy Bailenson's lab has published (though from his perch in Xerox PARC, Nick Yee is giving his alma mater
Add to the to-read pile: Evolution and the Emergent Self
From Salon: The Internet allows us to do all kinds of things we never imagined possible. It lets us communicate with people across the world. We can learn