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On Oprah.com: 6 ways to be a better parent online
Apr 2, 2010 | Family, Top Family Posts, Oprah.com, In the media
If it takes a village to raise a child, that village no longer needs to be defined by the place you happen to live. This post for Oprah.com shows how to find online support to help you be a better parent online and offline.
Getting to know you in the age of Google
Mar 29, 2010 | The Harvard Business Review
I ask digital anthropologist Brynn Evans to weigh in on the etiquette of googling new acquaintances — before or during a meeting.
The Tantalizing Promise of Social Search
Mar 29, 2010 | The Harvard Business Review
Of all the sessions I missed at this year’s SXSW, the one that I regretted the most was the Social…
How to password-protect yourself from iPhone addiction
iPhone contact has become reflexive. The five minutes before a meeting, the two-minute walk to the coffee shop, the 10 seconds between parking the car and walking in the front door: they’re all moments when I automatically reach for the iPhone.
If my iPhone were a cigarette, I’d be a chain smoker. If my iPhone were a bottle of scotch, I’d be a hard-core alcoholic. If it were a rosary I’d be a religious zealot.
There’s nothing I could touch as frequently as I touch my iPhone without looking like a total freak.
What makes me think that the constant, obsessive iPhone contact is any less freaky? Or more to the point, any less addictive?
On Oprah.com: Great dates that take your marriage online
Mar 25, 2010 | Oprah.com, Relationships
This post for Oprah.com shows how the social media can take your marriage online — with a great date offline.
Kill your tech truths
Mar 25, 2010 | Top Self Posts, SMT, Zone, Productivity, Self
We’re taught to think of technologies as constants…and so we fall into thinking of tech in absolutes, and getting attached to truths that hold us back more than they help us. Here are 10 tech truths you would do well to question.
Confidential to Beer Guy
Mar 24, 2010 | Career
You know who you are. In the card-swapping frenzy that is SXSW, I'm not surprised to have a conversation interrupted so that somebody can give me his card, and ask for mine. It was only later that it seemed like a really, really bad idea for you to give me yours. I...
From HBR.org: Five Unsolved Problems Social Media Could Fix
Mar 24, 2010 | The Harvard Business Review
Check out the panels or exhibitors at this year’s SXSW and you’ll see how many longstanding social media and web…
Why I love my new job
When I came into work today, I found that somebody had knit a handle-cosy onto the front door of Emily Carr, and around the pipe just inside. This is why working at an art university rocks.
The next tech revolution is here and now
Mar 22, 2010 | Social Signal, Self, SMT
The next tech revolution is underway. It's not the dawn of the semantic web, or the mobile web, or web 3.0 or any of these buzzwords. This revolution is about the people using technology, not the technology itself. It seems like the tech industry is finally waking up...