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Saying goodbye to pen and paper

Jan 16, 2013 |

My latest blog post for Harvard Business Review has provoked a strong reaction to the idea of saying goodbye to the paper notebook. Here's my own take on the experience of giving up on paper and pen. 4.00 22.95 Alexandra Samuel Those 25 characters, comprising a tip, a...

13 New Year’s resolutions for a better life online

Dec 31, 2012 |

As you start the new year with the best intentions for your personal, professional and emotional development, don't forget to put your tech life on the list. Here are 13 resolutions to choose from, depending on your own tech challenges and commitments; you'll know...

How to talk about tragedy online

Dec 15, 2012 |

Time out, people. In the past 24 hours we have been have been inspired, informed, comforted and mobilized by the unfolding conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. But it's clear that we have also had moments of feeling attached, horrified, angered and shamed....

The trouble with resilience

Dec 14, 2012 |

Today's shooting is one of those moments when time, and our hearts, break. How can we go on? How will life ever feel the same? What should shock us is not only the moment of tragedy, but how quickly tragedy fades. I remember with icy-hot clarity the morning of 9/11,...

Using the Internet to find empathy in solitude

Dec 12, 2012 |

Twitter is outsourced schizophrenia. I have a couple hundred voices I have consensually  agreed to allow residence inside my brain. So writes Adam Brault in a very thoughtful blog post, I quit Twitter for a month and it completely changed my thinking about mostly...

ShopStyle: Diary of an online shopping addiction

Dec 10, 2012 |

Update: If you visit shopstyle.com from outside the U.S, you may be taken to an international site -- which in the  case of the Canadian site has far fewer results. To access the U,S. site, visit this URL (and bookmark it). You'll be taken to the. women's clothes...

2×2: Filtering your Facebook friends

Nov 26, 2012 |

How do you decide to view or relate to different friends on Facebook? As with all things in life, this can be described by a 2x2 matrix: Love this person Not so much Entertaining Facebooker Add to my "A1 pals" list, which is the news feed I look at most of the time...

Don’t blame the Internet for infidelity

Nov 19, 2012 |

The Petraeus drama reflects the enticements and betrayals of our new, disembodied modes of discourse. The come-ons, the flirtations, the stalking, the alleged harassment: all were abetted by the deceptive cloak of cyberspace, and all were immortalized there. It’s a...