I fascinated by this fairly recent study (funded by Yahoo!, among others) about the overlapping of technlogies within a typical family. Doing that equals to more hours of activity per day. From the report: While using the Internet, people are also doing two or three other things, often watching TV or talking on the phone,”…
Category: ruminations
Goodbye dotMac and Hello World
I am a bit saddened by my decision last month to not renew my dotMac account when it expires tomorrow. I have proudly been a mac.com gal for several years – even before they started charging. I was happy to pay at first, the services were worth it. I used the groups..I used the iTools…
Feed the Exploratory Need…finding delight in technology
Alan Levine, in his CogDogBlog (which I find a must-read), once again nails it with what I was thinking as well but couldn’t quite squeeze through my pinhole of a blogger brain! I had the same experience as he did with my Google personalized homepage last week. “Hey! Tabs! Cool! What happens if I click….”…
(C)hell Phones – are they good for us?
So, I read this article on Wired News today and it struck a chord. I am always surprised how folks react when I didn’t have a cell phone. (DISCLAIMER: I now own a Virgin Mobile pay as you go phone that sits in my home office way more than anywhere else. The occasional trip out…
A Whole New Mind – book and attitude
Being fresh from a nice vacation, I do feel as if I have a whole new mind! I also spent my airplane time reading Daniel Pink‘s book A Whole New Mind. It was a great read and I’m not usually into reading business and strategy books. The main thesis really lends itself to my whole…
Brain-cation
Back from an extended vacation which was very much needed and well received by body, mind and soul. Fun was had in Maine in a cabin that had no phone, no internet, and lots of rustic charm. Spent my time with friends and more time outside than I usually do in a month or two….
@@Things to Look At
I keep a small text file on my hard drive called “@@THINGS TO LOOK AT”. It sits at the top of my directory and whne I have a few minutes, I look at the file and visit the site or check out the tool/technology to learn more.From that list, there are several tools/sites that I…
International Networks Archive \\ Remapping Our World
I love StumbleUpon..it is one of my favorite Firefox extensions. I usually hit it a few times a weekend just to see what comes up. Today, the International Networks Archive, a project driven by the Princeton University Sociology Department, was on my screen from my click on the StumbleUpon toolbar. I took a dive into…
Killer App for Education (and life?)
As Darren Kuropatwa of the Rip,Mix, Burn blog said a few months ago…RSS is the killer app for educators. I have been working with instructional technologies of all kinds for about 20 years now and I got excited about a few things (ok..so I was pretty wrong about laserdisks). But RSS has got me really…
Edward Tufte – A Techy-Feely Practitioner
While I didn’t hear this story live, I was glad to find it on the site. I went to Tufte’s workshop last year and was thrilled all day with the experience. Talk about techy-feely!! From the NPR story: They all demonstrate one concept: good design is timeless, while bad design can be a matter of…