I couldn’t know it then, but the outcome of that battle would influence the purchase decisions of many thousands, if not millions, of people seeking a good night’s sleep. It would also reveal just how thoroughly the internet and the… Read More ›
Articles
Our culture is becoming always on
On the subject of information overload– I suspect part of it is the immediacy of new information, whether that information is world events or text or email. And the need/desire to keep up means that there is less time for… Read More ›
Information overload / emotional underload
I have been pondering what life was like some time ago for some reason recently and it occurred to me that the amount of information we take in now could be having a negative effect on the time we have… Read More ›
One person’s history of Twitter
This was my first look at Twitter, or twttr, as it was annoyingly called then. I was right about the logo and wrong about the service. It wasn’t stupid, it was just hard to explain. So Noah showed it to… Read More ›
A life on the line
On the other end of the line, Cecilia lay crumpled, shot in the head by her drunken boyfriend, who immediately turned the gun on himself. The last call of her life was the eighth she’d made to 911 in a… Read More ›
You don’t get this kind of support anywhere else
I have written about Apple’s support prowess in the past a few times, but still it impresses me in a way that no other company seems capable of. For the past couple of months I have been suffering from some… Read More ›
To effect this, he outlined specific steps to “make political advertising more transparent.” Facebook will soon require that all political ads disclose “which page” paid for them (“I’m Epic Fail Memes, and I approve this message”) and ensure that every… Read More ›
Feeling down? Don’t go to Facebook
I was speaking to someone this week about Facebook and she mentioned that she has stopped using it completely. She explained that every time she visited she ended up coming away from it feeling down and generally annoyed at people… Read More ›
Infamous Techflops
Costing $900 ($1,350 today), the Sony Glasstron was a head-mounted display which promised to replicate “the viewing experience of a 52-inch TV at 6.5 feet.” Inside were twin 0.55-inch LCD screens, each one boasting a resolution of 180,000 pixels. Slap… Read More ›
Design is about the juggling of various often competing constraints
“Once upon a time, Apple could do little wrong.” I wonder when that was? Having just read about the design and launch of the Mac – not enough memory, no cursor keys, etc – it wasn’t then. Or how about… Read More ›
