To paraphrase the title of the much discussed article from Nicolas Carr, I wanted to share an unstructured thought with you regarding feeds, bookmarking, skimming and the lost of depth or, put differently, the hidden problem within tools that suppose to help us with the information overload.
I might be extrapolating from my own ADD experience [...]
In the past 2 weeks I’ve had this weird feeling of deja-vu from reading bloggers and twitterers getting all excited about brands that ‘listen to the conversation’ (especially the Twittersphere), replying immediately to people’s rants and solving customer service issues.
Sounds perfect, you say, why are you spoiling the party?
Well, let me take you couple [...]
“Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m [...]
Before i delve into socio-psychological-brain-shag here’s a little exercise:
When was the last time you’ve experienced something - from the most mundane (being tired, basking in the sun, fighting jetleg, craving a banana) to slightly more elaborated one (thinking about politics, being in a good restaurant, getting pissed off with shitty morning commute, watching a great [...]
Hello 2008.
The pressure of writing the first post of the new year have left me wordless but I now have enough experience to overcome this ‘can’t think of anything interesting to write’ syndrome by simply writing about the very first thing that touched me this morning. Try it sometime - there is always this [...]
“The advancing of age matters when it gives you experience - the kind that adds wisdom, power and self-confidence to you - and thereby makes you a more attractive individual for the satisfaction and joy of you, your family, your friends and the world.”
Yoko Ono
via a wonderful post over at digital digressions (one of my [...]
just over a week ago I got myself on facebook and i’ve decided today to let go. i got sticky and tired. facebook is wonderful and it’s all very well put together, to the point that it’s addictive. for me, it’s like big, candy-coated cake. it was really tasty but after a short [...]
Note: this is not a smug rant on facebook. I’m all there, collecting friends, poking people, and joining different groups like there’s no tomorrow. So it’s more of a reflecting-out-loud:
we now witness with facebook what can only be described as a massive herd moving in by their millions and i can’t help [...]
* [I wrote this post few months back but didn't publish it for some reason until I saw Anne I Like presentation's title at interesting 2007 and thought it would be nice to re-write and hope for some interesting input]
hello nice people. It would be very difficult to pinpoint where and when this all niceness [...]