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Does Facebook Make Us Rude?
Some food for thought, from The Wall Street Journal: “Why We Are So Rude Online.” Some new research suggests that lower self control...
Mar 8, 20132 min read


“Google and the World Brain”
In case you missed it, “Google and the World Brain” (a reference to the H.G. Wells essay collection of the same name) is a new...
Mar 4, 20132 min read


Let’s Discuss: Facebook, Loneliness, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
We talked earlier this month about Facebook and our friends. But here’s the problem in a nutshell according to The Atlantic: “within...
May 14, 20125 min read


We Can’t Be Friends … Unless We’re Facebook-Friends, Too
Here’s a great — and somewhat lengthy — read from the New York Times: “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You“. For an article 3+ years...
May 1, 20123 min read


Facebook, People 2.0, and “Generation Why?”
I think Zadie Smith’s “Generation Why?” in The New York Review of Books is one of the most thoughtful discussions on our sense of self in...
Mar 24, 20112 min read


Facebook, People 2.0, and “Generation Why?”
“We have different ideas about things. Specifically we have different ideas about what a person is, or should be. I often worry that my...
Mar 24, 20112 min read
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