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,
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
A brief rant about babies and technology
Watch this delightful video of a baby being confused by a magazine. (You've probably already seen it, come to think of it.) It's been commented on, linked to,
The live version of the Marseille talk
The video for my Marseille talk went live today. I was getting kind of impatient, but I must admit, they did a nice job editing it!
Fred Stutzman on Freedom, productivity, and bigger/better/faster vs. smaller/better/slower
Fred Stutzman, the creator of Freedom and Anti-Social, and now a postdoc at CMU (and like me, a Microsoft Research Lab alum) has a very nice reflection about
Are there distraction-free graphics programs? Can there be Zenware for music?
I've been wondering about this for a little while. Zenware (the term was coined in this article, btw) seems to consist of 1) programs that keep you from
Tony Perrettet on writing and distraction
My fellow futurist and author Anthony Townsend pointed me to this New York Times piece by Tony Perrettet on writing and distraction: Literary distraction seems a very modern problem.
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
Just don’t dip your iPhone in the tom ka gai
MG Siegler had a short piece a couple months ago about cellphones at the dinner table that argues that it's not antisocial if 1) everyone is doing it,