The difference between idleness and readiness.
March 20, 2010
Tweeting SXSWi
Recently I’ve noticed in movies or TV shows that during a lecture every college student is rapidly typing away on a laptop. As a teacher, I think I would find it very disturbing. I’d wonder, are they taking notes or messaging friends? Are they mentally present at all? How does one even speak to a room of people whose eyes are focused elsewhere? Where’s the physical and emotional feedback when
February 6, 2008
iPhone, A Day in the Life
Great technology redefines a task so completely that we change our behavior, not because we are forced to adapt to the technology but because the technology provides us with new ways to interact with the world and to do things we never imagined doing before.
September 29, 2005
No More Phoning Home
Time to trade in some old concepts: residential phone out; personal cell phone in.
February 20, 2005
Blogs Rule, MSM Drool
A clip from Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” on blogs and Jeff Gannon.
October 25, 2004
Sunday Brunch
Marge: What’s brunch?
Jacques: You’ll love it. It’s not quite breakfast, it’s not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice of cantaloupe at the end. You don’t get completely what you would get at breakfast, but you get a good meal.
— The Simpsons
September 11, 2004
Welcome to the 21st Century
If ET was carrying his cell, they wouldn’t be waiting for him to phone home.