Social relations and technology
Dartmouth student Benjamin Schwartz on Facebook and Infinite Jest’s video telephony.
Newton Minow, fifty years later
Fifty years after “a vast wasteland,” Newton Minow proposes six goals for the next fifty years of communications technology.
AOL buys Huffington Post
With sarcastic pseudo-links.
Consider Frank Ryan
A cautionary tale
Seven hours, thirty-eight minutes a day
Of electronic devices
“Why E-mail No Longer Rules”
Facebook, Twitter.
Specialized skills, no longer needed
Mark Patinkin: "I know how to wait for four days for a mailed letter to arrive."
Andrew Keen, amateurs, Wikipedia, and the Oxford English Dictionary
"He misses the real point of the Internet: not that it makes everyone an expert (it doesn't of course), but that it allows independent expertise on countless specific points to flourish."
"Fake following"
This makes social networking not a game?
The iWorld
Andrew Sullivan on technology and culture
Kill your television
On turning off the tv
Thank you for not talking
On the growth of cell-phone-free zones
The iWorld
From Andrew Sullivan's column in the Times of London : I was visiting New York last week and noticed something I’d never thought I’d say abo...
"Human rights" and other four-letter words
It's remarkable that I find myself in agreement with a Wall Street Journal editorial, but today I do. From the WSJ (June 15): Microsoft's ...
Attention
From an Ellen Goodman column, "A snail mail tale" : How do you describe the times we live in, so connected and yet fractured? Linda Stone, a...