jschneider + 1995   11

Being Digital
"His general stance on email is off — understandably so. Who could ever have predicted our email culture? He is, for example, very up for doing email on weekends because “I’d rather answer email on Sunday and be in my pyjamas on Monday”. Unless the “Monday pyjamas” refers to working from home (which isn’t mentioned anywhere), this reads like a naive assumption that an hour tackling unending email on the weekend corresponds to going in late on Monday. Which, you know, it should. But it doesn’t.
Also, this gem: ”One of the enormous attractions of email is that it is not interruptive like a telephone.” This should be true, and is for some people, but I know that I and others struggle to restrain email checking to once or twice a day. Also, check this: ”You can process [email] at your leisure, and for this reason you may reply to messages that would not stand a chance in hell of getting through the secretarial defences of corporate, telephonic life.” I think not!"
context  hypertext  HCI  ubicomp  1995  email 
january 2012 by jschneider
Coyle's InFormation: Men, Women: Different
" If you see some high heels flying in the air and get an image of a woman having just been dumped on the road, you're either a woman or would make a great boyfriend. In my talks and writing I called this image: Woman as roadkill on the information highway."" If you see some high heels flying in the air and get an image of a woman having just been dumped on the road, you're either a woman or would make a great boyfriend. In my talks and writing I called this image: Woman as roadkill on the information highway."
gender  1995  computers  advertising 
august 2011 by jschneider
TSLL -- v. 22, no. 1 -- September 1996 -- LC Update
"As of June 27, LC had recataloged all Shepards as serials. CD's, disks, and other computer files held in the "Machine Readable Reading Room" before its closure in December 1995 have been redistributed to the reading rooms."
via:@dchud  LoC  machine-readable  History  1995 
july 2009 by jschneider

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