Designing distraction into cars
Mitsubishi recently showed off a new concept car interior featuring wraparound displays, a yoke rather than a steering wheel, and buttons that appear or disappear depending on use context.
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!
Frustration in computers
If you were looking for a subject where most people would think, "I live it, so tell me why I have to dive into the scholarly literature on
Police cruisers and distracted driving
From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, in an article about an accident involving a state tropper who appears to have been using his car's laptop just before the crash: Distracted
George Eliot on focus: “All the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web”
After reading the Neil Gabler piece, this line of George Eliot (caught by the excellent Ta-Nehisi Coates) grabbed me: I at least have so much to do in
Neil Gabler on the post-idea society
A provocative... well, idea... in a recent New York Times piece: [W]e are living in an increasingly post-idea world — a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that
Alan Jacobs on reading
I just came across this City Journal review of Alan Jacobs' new book, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction: “The one prudence in life is
It’s better for your audience to remember one thing than forget five
I gave a talk yesterday at TEDxYouth@Monterey (I think I got all the various Xes, @s, and other connectors in the event name). via flickr It was a
Larry Rosen on technology breaks
Cal State Dominguez Hills psychology professor Larry Rosen has a forthcoming book, iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us. A little preview from
“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