Great post about memory from Jon Udell.

Really wonderful essay about life, technology, and connecting people.

It seems that Ulysses and kids ability to exert self-control is less connected to a natural ability to be more zen-like in the face of temptations, and more linked to the ability to reconfigure our environment (tying ourselves to the mast) and modulate the intensity by which it tempts us (filling our ears with wax)."

Simultanology will become the standard mode of operation for the future. Things will all be "just in time."

Only when things are "dead" can the real work begin. Work that matters happens outside of view from the drive-by technorati.

Mobiles give us a legitimate connection to nearly every human on earth. Landlines could only give us connections to places.

Terrific article about the human brain. Wonderful little nuggets like “The feeling of knowing is just that, a sensation.”

"But I’m surprised that anyone ventures so far into this thicket of sophistry. I get stuck much earlier in the equation. Everyone has an attention span: really? And really again: an attention span is a freestanding entity like a boxer’s reach, existing independently of any newspaper or chess game that might engage or repel it, and which might be measured by the psychologist’s equivalent of a tailor’s tape?"

Potential benefits of dropping the habit of multitasking.

"The quest to understand the impact on the brain of heavy technology use — at a time when such use is exploding — is still in its early stages."

"We’re masters of the attentive float. We get in and out of the water easily and are very happy to find our friends waiting on the beach, offering a towel and a shard of poetry washed ashore from the deep pool of our distracted wanderings."

"I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. That's the idea their thoughts will drift toward when they're allowed to drift freely."

Greg Linch's ideas about computational thinking and how it is relevant to journalism.

"The hive mind should be thought of as a tool. Empowering the collective does not empower individuals — just the reverse is true. There can be useful feedback loops set up between individuals and the hive mind, but the hive mind is too chaotic to be fed back into itself."