First, I went away for a week and didn’t bring my computer. Then I decided to turn off my phone — no constantly checking voicemail, no sending text messages. No responsibility to check in, no pull to respond to other people (except my sweetie, and she was there in person with me), no hurrying.
Being [...]
I started thinking about this in the context of facebook and flickr and twitter and blogs and all the various places online you can share what you are thinking, reading, doing, and seeing so I almost called this post how naked are you willing to get online?
See, new platforms for socialization have many asking [...]
I think this might be the fear social software stimulates.
It’s easy to imagine how this happens. There is something about apps with “friends” or the text entry box on a wiki or blog that can feel like being called up to the board to solve a problem in front of everybody — it’s that trapped [...]
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