I’ve given up on the iPhone. Or, rather, I’ve given up on AT&T seeing as how they don’t really want me to use 3g data despite the $30-per-month data charge. The poor dears — it seems that actually using your iPhone puts a strain on their system. It apparently hasn’t occurred to anyone at AT&T [...Click for full post...]
This post was originally published on Rhetorica. News-Leader Editor David Stoeffler announced today that the paper will soon require readers to use Facebook in order to comment on content. It’s a good move: The goal is to eliminate anonymity in the hopes of increased civility and conversation in comment threads. In the long run, we [...Click for full post...]
How do you know you are real? I mean, yes, obviously, you’re real enough in a corporal sense. But we live in a society in which there’s another important sense of being real — the reality of the screen. If you’re on it, you’re real. The television screen is still the ultimate achievement of real. [...Click for full post...]
Interesting video about Facebook and private life: So, yeah, listening in on conversations at the food court in the mall is creepy. And there are ways this creepy behavior is analogous to how some people use online information to check up on others, e.g. employers, as Shirky mentions. There seems to me to be several kinds of [...Click for full post...]
People who know me know that I ride a bicycle and walk for basic transportation. I don’t drive a car very often. But my family does own one. And now we own a new one because the old one died. So that’s a picture of the new one — a 2010 Toyota Prius. It’s like [...Click for full post...]
So, yeah, I changed a few passwords after reading what happened to James Fallows and his wife when her gmail account was hacked. It turns out that we — the users — need to be taking a lot more responsibility for our online security, especially as more and more of our lives move into the cloud. [...Click for full post...]
From my Facebook page: How to know if an idea is worth considering: The idea takes into account our use of energy, especially oil. See Wikipedia: Petroleum Fact: Modern civilization is 100 percent dependent upon oil. Even our so-called green energy technologies are 100 percent dependent upon oil. No oil = no wind farms, no [...Click for full post...]
I’m all about the whole Occupy Wall Street thing. Springfield, too. Part of me is nostalgic for the 60s. Part of me is just really pissed off. Part of me wants to say: “Screw it! This is too important. I’m chucking work for awhile and heading to New York City.” And part of me is [...Click for full post...]
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