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PC World - E-Mail Addiction: Five Signs You Need Help
Are you addicted to e-mail? Study finds the odds are good you checked your e-mail within the last 15 minutes. Here are five warning signs.
You've got interruptions - BizTech - Technology - theage.com.au
Email is proving a dangerous distraction and is just as addictive as gambling, writes Suw Charman-Anderson.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The cloud's Chrome lining
Google is motivated by something much larger than its congenital hatred of Microsoft. It knows that its future, both as a business and as an idea (and Google's always been both), hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the usefulness of the Internet, which in turn hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the capabilities of web apps, which in turn hinges on rapid improvements in the workings of web browsers.
Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three
Is it time to revise the old saw that everyone in the world is connected by just six degrees of separation? A study from French mobile carrier O2 has found that strangers are more connected to each other than they ever have been.
Future of Internet Search: Mobile version « petitinvention
Future of Internet Search: Mobile version
How To Demo Your Startup
Jason Calacanis’ most recent post to his email mailing list is particularly relevant to our audience. He’s spoken with 200 companies in ten minute increments as they give their pitch to be a part of the upcoming TechCrunch50 conference.
Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks - Times Online
The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate.
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But the damage is not caused by overwork, it’s
caused by multiple distracted work. One American study found that
interruptions take up 2.1 hours of the average knowledge worker’s day. This,
it was estimated, cost the US economy $588 billion a year. Yet the rabidly
multitasking distractee is seen as some kind of social and economic ideal. -
“The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have
lost,” says Bill McKibben, the great environmentalist. - 2 more annotations...
Tech Zombies: 6 Technologies That Don't Know They're Dead | Cracked.com
Some technologies are like a Tyrannosaurus running down the highway (without the awesome). They made sense once and now they're hideously out of place, carried only by momentum as they stumble toward their inevitable date with the sixteen-wheeler of Progress.
But, like the T-Rex, they seem intent on doing as much damage as they can until then.
Novelties - Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot - NYTimes.com
A new, inexpensive robotic device from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University attaches snugly to almost any standard digital camera, tilting and panning it to fashion highly detailed panoramic vistas — whether of the Grand Canyon, a rain forest or a backyard Easter egg hunt. The robot is called GigaPan, named “giga” for the billion or more pixels it can marshal for a typical panorama. It creates the huge, high-resolution vista by extending its robotic finger and repeatedly clicking the camera shutter, taking tens, hundreds or even thousands of overlapping images, each at a slightly different angle, that are then stitched together by software to create one gigapixel shot.
Info Overload: What Can We Do? - ReadWriteWeb
The information overload problem has reached a critical point. Workers drowning in their inboxes and jumping from task to task have now cost the nation $650 billion in lost productivity. A research group attempting to understand and combat the problem has recently been formed. We can either wait for answers for them, or we can start finding solutions ourselves. Let's do what social media addicts do best: let's crowdsource this thing!
Info Overload: The Problem - ReadWriteWeb
Information overload is no longer a joke. For those who suffered with this affliction, it never was, but now that there are real numbers attached to the problem, it has finally prompted companies to take action.
Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload - ReadWriteWeb
These days, it seems everyone has an opinion about how to deal with information overload, especially when it comes to email management. There are numerous methodologies, best practices, tips, and tutorials available, but are any of them really effective? We'll explore that question as we delve into the top five email management methodologies.
Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast - NYTimes.com
SAN FRANCISCO — The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. It is a common complaint. But now the very companies that helped create the flood are trying to mop it up.
Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain)
The journalist in me has been avoiding this post (too navel-gazing, too self-absorbed), but the blogger in me can’t help it. Media is changing—how it is produced and how it is consumed. The worlds of blogging and journalism are colliding and I want to get some thoughts down on this transition before I forget what the old world was like or feel too comfortable in the new one.
What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0
Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I’m going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it’s my local paper and this is a local example.
What Magazines Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0
Since I already drilled a nerve with What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web, which is on its way to becoming one of my most linked posts ever — and since everyone loves a sequel — I thought I would do a follow up for magazines. The lessons, of course, apply to every print publisher, who constantly discovers new ways to frustrate web users by prioritizing print over web.
MediaShift Idea Lab . Ten Things Journalists Should Know About Surviving In a High-Tech Industry | PBS
Journalism is becoming a high tech industry, and that means that career norms for journalists are approaching those of high tech workers -- shorter job tenures, working for smaller companies, and much more. Here are ten things that can help journalists survive Web 2.0 with their sanity intact:
Expats' excellent Valley ventures - BizTech - Technology - theage.com.au
Brad Howarth meets Australian entrepreneurs breaking into and doing well in North America.
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