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In Defense of Distraction

By and others ⋅ May 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation. * By Sam Anderson * Published May 17, 2009 I. The Poverty of Attention I’m going to pause here, right at the beginning of my riveting article about attention, and ask you to please get all of your precious 21st-century distractions […]

Accessing Newsgroups

By and others ⋅ May 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

From a couple of Usenet friends: ‘news.individual.de ‘….. It is extremely reliable…Costs only 10 Euros per years subscription….. http://news.individual.net/ Another News Server that is excellent… Still free as far as I know.. http://news.motzarella.org/ There is also … Datemas This used to be free, but it now charges 5 Euros per years subscription…. http://news.datemas.de/ You apply […]

Windows 7: It’s Vista done right

By and others ⋅ May 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

David Flynn May 5, 2009 David Flynn gets hands-on with the latest version of Microsoft’s operating system – and explains how to score a free copy to test for yourself. One of the handiest features in any piece of Windows software is the “undo” button, which lets you step back in time to delete some […]

Facebook – beware!

By and others ⋅ March 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Lance Lawton wrote: Hi folks, Again a general advice from me addressed to everyone I can remember having as Facebook friends and whose e-mail address I have … You might recall me writing a few months ago about the experience of having my Facebook account disabled for reasons that remained mysterious. A week or two […]

Internet Evangelism Day

By and others ⋅ February 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

18 February 2009 Hi Rowland When I wrote to you two weeks ago with news of the 2009 Internet Evangelism Day – http://www.internetevangelismday.com/latestnews if you missed it – I’d not yet got our new blog launched. Now it is running – Digital Evangelism Issues (DEI is a mirror- image acronym of IED!) is at: http://www.internetevangelismday.com/blog […]

Internet Evangelism Day 2009

By and others ⋅ February 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Please find below our latest news about this year’s Internet Evangelism Day on 26 April. It’s also available as a formatted Word document at http://www.InternetEvangelismDay.com/latestnews If you are an editor or blogger, we will be very grateful for any coverage you could give in a future issue. (Coverage well in advance would give time for […]

The Scourge of Internet addiction

By and others ⋅ February 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

We are a culture obsessed with experiences. We fear missing out. We cannot bear to see our neighbours and friends having a seemingly enjoyable life where everything seems to go as planned, while we struggle along year after long, drawn out year. When we believe that this is our lot in life, it is a […]

Facebook Problems

By and others ⋅ January 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Hi folks, This is addressed to everyone whose e-mail address I have recorded and who to the best of my memory is on Facebook … My sad experience: On 31st December I attempted to log on to my Facebook account, only to get the following message: “Account Disabled Your account has been disabled by an […]

Facebook – addictive?

By and others ⋅ January 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Pros and cons on this blog – http://brownblog.info/?p=695

Ten prophecies for the digital millennium

By and others ⋅ December 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Graeme Philipson December 9, 2008 A summary of the main trends in IT, from the rise of the supernet to the threat posed by intelligent machines. Recently I was asked to speak at a conference about what’s going to happen in IT predictions in the next 10 years. It’s always hard to tell the future, […]

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