Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Part of the lag between my recent posts has been my recent move back to the U.S. after a year and a half in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I wanted to be a flaneur in a cheap, hip city that would let me enact my Gertrude Stein dreams while was still young, childless, and relatively untethered [...]
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Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Prague, telecommuting
I was cleaning out my Bloglines account of unread articles–I’m convinced that having 22 unread emails, 117 articles pegged for immediate reading and 3,209 unread posts cannot be good for you or your anxiety levels–and came across one on the pros of having shorter blog posts.
I get that the blog post is short. I get [...]
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Tags: attention, productivity
Findings from a few recently-published academic papers (email me if you want the specifics):
Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, or SNS, can impact self-perception in ways not unlike that of the media influencing celebrities, creating an odd blend of narcissism and insecurity. Publicly displaying of a few areas of one’s life (a theme song [...]
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Tags: Facebook, MySpace, personality, psychology, SNS, social
More on the Myth of Multitasking
It’s Friday, and for those of you math-savvy enough to do the calculations, it’s late in the afternoon here in Buenos Aires. I haven’t accomplished as much as I’d have liked to this week. Surprise!
Although there’s been a lot written about how much e-mail zaps your attention, I never wanted to think that my activities [...]
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Tags: attention, cognition, psychology, Technology
I did an article on music recommendation a while back, and have been reading a lot about the subject lately for another article. One thing that always bothered me about looking at someone’s listening history–a list of songs they’ve listened to, and how many times they’ve listed to each one–is that you have no idea [...]
Filed under: Cultural miscellany, Technology | 1 Comment
Tags: visualization
The Phoenix New Times recently reprinted an article I wrote on the effect of having too much music on how we actually listen to it. Because this is the fourth time that the article has been reprinted (original here)–and it’s still sparking random comments on random music blogs–it seems safe to say that the influence of [...]
Filed under: News/current affairs, Technology | 1 Comment
Tags: choice, culture, google, Internet, ipod, Media, music, newspaper, newspapers, psychology, Technology
According to Newswise, a study recently published in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication by researchers at Ohio State University and UC Irvine “found that workers who used instant messaging on the job reported less interruption than colleagues who did not.” The report goes on to say that using instant messaging was often used for [...]
Filed under: Communication, Technology | 2 Comments
Tags: Behavior, Communication, IM, Instant Messaging, Technology, Work
An abundance of recording devices and channels to publish information, massive distrust in the mainstream media, an increased desire for transparency and scrutiny in politics and elections following the debacle of Florida in 2000: this year created the perfect storm for a breakthrough in citizen journalism. (Apparently, it’s being defined as “journalism by people who [...]
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Tags: Media, Technology
One of the things that I both hate and love about digital media is its portability. I can’t imagine having to lug around CDs to all the music I own instead of my cute little laptop, or boxes of correspondence or photo albums when I have so many letters saved in Gmail and photos on [...]
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Tags: Tech-ish, Technology
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