Smartphones and sleepless nights in Northern Ireland
Problems keeping technology in balance aren't specific to the United States, according to Northern Ireland business Web site Business First Online: While technology ownership in Ireland has seen
“A tool our parents could not have imagined has become a lifeline we can’t do without”
A new Time Magazine global survey of attitudes towards cellphones and connectedness reveals some not-too-surprising attitudes:A tool our parents could not have imagined has become a lifeline we
“email is the biggest killer of my productivity”
A couple months ago I deleted Facebook and Twitter from my iPhone. I was going through a "get rid of digital clutter" phase, and had already taken myself
Shiny happy people going offline
Jenna Wortham follows up her piece on unplugging with a post on a response she found interesting: Nathan Jurgenson's argument "against fetishizing the offline and becoming obsessed —
On tweeting during concerts, and the purpose of criticism
San Jose Mercury News music critic Richard Scheinin has a piece about tweeting during concerts:Earlier this month, I attended a concert by jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who is
Jack Cheng on the Slow Web: “Timely not real-time. Rhythm not random. Moderation not excess. Knowledge not information.”
James Fallows points out a great-- no, not great, really fantastic-- essay by Brooklyn-based designer and writer Jack Cheng, on the Slow Web: The Slow Web Movement is
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?
Quote of the day: Stewart Brand on Spacewar
From his 1972 article on the early videogame: Spacewar as a parable is almost too pat. It was the illegitimate child of the marrying of computers and graphic
Introduction to Contemplative Computing: My talk at Lift11, Marseille
This is an illustrated copy of the talk I gave at the Lift11 conference in Marseille, France in July 2011. I was in a session titled "Slow," and
Public release of contemplative computing article draft
After working on this for a couple weeks, I've reached that familiar point with the contemplative computing article (or mini-monolith, as it's well over 10,000 words) where it's