A history I need: the concept of “real time”
Has anyone written an article on the term "real time"-- where it comes from, how it's been used in the last few decades, and what it means today?
“Confessions of a Tweeter:” count me sympathetic and skeptical
"Writer, editor, and Web professional" (who isn't a Web professional these days?) Larry Carlat has a New York Times Magazine piece about how Twitter destroyed his life: It
Great sign: Pay Attention
Via Offlining, a timely reminder. And no, cities aren't putting these up; it's more like a piece of guerilla marketing (though as an avid reader of William Gibson,
Apparently I speak French…
...or I do in this interview, anyway! Always a little odd to see your name attached to languages you don't speak.
Jobs biography in the SF Chronicle
Dan Zigmond has an excellent, thoughtful review of the new Steve Jobs biography in the San Francisco Chronicle. Clearly there's a history of Zen in Silicon Valley that
On the success of Angry Birds
My wife shot me a link to this article: Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience Recently clients have asked
Steve Jobs and Buddhism
A long, interesting piece on PLOS Blogs' NeuroTribe asks, "What kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs?" Not in the sense of lineage or doctrinal belief-- he was most
Air, Food, Water, Internet?
People under 30 think they're the new essentials, according to Cisco's new Connected World Technology Report. The study surveyed 2,800 college students or young adults in the U.S., U.K.,
20% of people do mobile work while driving. Not while sitting in a car. While driving it.
Living here in Silicon Valley, where the driving is terrible, I'm really not at all surprised by the very depressing statistics Klint Finley reported on in ReadWrite Enterprise:
Egocasting, personal media, and cohesion in professional sports
Christine Rosen has a great term, "egocasting," to describe the enclosed, self-preferring world of RSS feeds, music, and news that we cue up for ourselves. One of the