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The denial of some video games and music players to the formerly trapped Chilean miners illuminates contemporary society’s disregard for group cohesion and provides lessons on how we can execute an act that is essential to life: showing consideration for others.
The Web makes it possible for the first time to monetize creative content with structural characteristics defined by aesthetic rather than market concerns.
Factual information about a story is quickly replicated by an effectively infinite number of outlets across the Web, and the only way to distinguish your story beyond the initial two seconds of its existence is to provide analysis, opinion and personality.
The text-based role-playing game Zork, a mythologically powerful bundle of Apple IIe joy from my childhood that was filled with interactive fiction, is now available for your Kindle or other device via the simple Web site of PortableQuest.com. I credit games like Zork with strengthening my imagination, providing me a much-needed escape, teaching me how … Read more
This article in The New Yorker casually mentions that admissions of problems with procrastination quadrupled between 1978 and 2002, then goes on to suggest a number of confidence-shattering explanations for human beings’ expertise in putting off anything remotely putoffable. The author gives 5 reasons. But he doesn’t address the uptick from ’78 to ’02. Why, … Read more
Companies may be excited about using the tools and customs of online friendship to sell their wares, but all I see is a strategy that has failure built into it. If the underpinning for a social interaction is the sale of a good or service in the pursuit of profit for one of those in … Read more
The musician David Byrne has been riding a bicycle for 30 years, mostly in urban environments, and often in metropolises outside of the United States. From the perch atop his bicycle as he guides it through Rome, New York, Istanbul and many other cities, he describes a window that gives him a clear view into … Read more