http://steelplatesahead.com/matt/ en Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:34:34 -0400 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:34:34 -0400 ms-reading-237 Google’s New Glasses And The War On Serendipity
The author makes a fabulous point about our drive for efficiency. However, I am not yet convinced that the glasses are categorically different from being strapped to a mobile device. Perhaps the distinction lies in the fact that glasses seem more connected to the self than does the phone.]]> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:54:34 -0500 ms-reading-236 E-Books on Tablets Fight Digital Distractions
I regularly clear off my desktop so I can focus on what I am doing with one or two applications; it seems we need software to make it just a little more difficult for us to give in to tempting distractions.]]> Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:46:13 -0500 ms-reading-235 Scripting News: The Un-Internet
Every once in a while I read an article like this and it gives me a sliver of hope.]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:31:53 -0500 ms-reading-234 For-Profit College Rules Scaled Back After Lobbying
See Christopher Beha’s Leveling the field: What I learned from for-profit education]]> Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:46:40 -0400 ms-reading-233 ‘Free Culture’ Advocate May Pay High Price
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]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:17:43 -0400 ms-reading-231 Obama Grasping Centrist Banner in Debt Impasse
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]]> Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:07:39 -0400 ms-reading-229 The Curse of Xanadu
]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:39:23 -0400 ms-reading-228 In San Francisco, Silicon Valley Culture Stands Apart
“The city benefits when a company decides to integrate more with the public life of the street.”]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:20:13 -0400 ms-reading-227 Google’s social network Google plus takes aim at Facebook, but will it work?
]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:06:39 -0400 ms-reading-226 Hyperloco: Why I find AOL’s Patch sites so off-putting
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]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:12:46 -0400 ms-reading-224 Edward Tufte’s sense of the relevant
Ha! Mark one for being a generalist.]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:05:52 -0400 ms-reading-223 Got Twitter? What’s Your Influence Score
An idea I know about but don’t want to heed: it’s best to "focus your digital presence on one or two areas of interest, [and not to] be a generalist." ]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:42:25 -0400 ms-reading-222 For Derek Jeter, on His 37th Birthday
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]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:40:26 -0400 ms-reading-219 Hating On The President: A Great American Pastime
As American as apple pie]]> Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:19:49 -0400 ms-reading-218 Technology Leads More Park Visitors Into Trouble
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