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Sherry Turkle on the flight from conversation
“Even when they are with friends, partners, children, everyone is on their own devices.”
technology 
5 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Dropbox invitation, anyone?
Dropbox now offers an extra 500MB of storage space to new users who sign up via an invitation.
technology 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Lights out in the Piazza
A website that allows students to ask questions about their coursework and allows both students and their professor to post answers. No thanks.
education  teaching  technology 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Technology, not always progess
Marco Arment: ”Sometimes, new technology is not progress.”
technology 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Orange Crate Art: Social relations and technology
Dartmouth student Benjamin Schwartz on Facebook and Infinite Jest’s video telephony.
culture  DavidFosterWallace  technology 
february 2012 by M.Leddy
I envy Mary Richards
“I have been watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Me-TV, and I must confess: I envy Mary Richards.”
technology  telephone  television  typewriter 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Radio buttons
Burma-Shave!
dowdyworld  humor  technology 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Figuring things out with Twitter
Twitter can help you figure out that it’s not just you. Or that perhaps it is.
technology 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Television antennas and other relics
Diane Schirf is remembering relics.
dowdyworld  technology  television 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Literature and word-processing
From the New York Times: “Jimmy Carter set off what may have been the first word-processing-related panic in 1981, when he accidently deleted several pages of his memoir in progress by hitting the wrong keys on his brand-new $12,000 Lanier.”
literature  technology  wordprocessing  writing 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
Steve Jobs on PowerPoint
“People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.”
PowerPoint  SteveJobs  technology 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
namebench
The Google Code project namebench (no cap) is an “open-source DNS benchmark utility” for OS X, UNIX, and Windows. It finds the fastest DNS servers for your computer.
Internet  technology 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
The Audio-Visual Society
We’re all members.
media  technology 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
A school without technology
In Silicon Valley’s Waldorf School of the Peninsula, teaching and learning take place without computers.
education  technology 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Zenith All-Speed Record Changer
“There’s something poignant about the prepared-for-all-eventualities mindset that this turntable is meant to satisfy.”
advertising  dowdyworld  technology 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Goodbye, Qwikster
Netflix flip-flops.
names  technology 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Recently updated
Amazon on the Kindle Fire and user data.
Amazon  technology 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
Kindle Fire kindles fears
Chris Espinosa: “This is the first shot in the new war for replacing the Internet with a privatized merchant data-aggregation network.”
Amazon  technology 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Netflix messes up
Qwikster. Ugh.
names  technology 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
The easy and the difficult
Donald A. Norman: “What a technology makes easy to do will get done; what it hides, or makes difficult, may very well not get done.”
technology 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Digital technology in the classroom
“As class sizes rise and teachers buy their own supplies, an Arizona school district seeks to spend even more on digital technology.”
education  technology 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Digital naïfs in the news
College students have difficulty with Google and academic databases and with asking librarians for help.
college  library  students  technology 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
The F word (Find)
Amazing: ”ninety percent of people don’t know how to use Control+F or Command+F to find text in a document or on a webpage.”
technology 
august 2011 by M.Leddy
BBC on podcasts
Who still listens? Lots of people.
radio  technology 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Typing in India
Commercial typists in India
technology  typewriter 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Moleskine app
“To my mind, the design involves the same analog-to-digital mistake that Apple’s Notes app makes.”
analog  digital  iPad  iPhone  technology  writing 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Across the wide Missouri Pacific
An improvisation on “Shenandoah” that joined musicians in Urbana, Illinois and Melbourne, Australia.
music  technology 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Digital natives and typewriters
“[A]s someone who remembers Eaton’s Corrasable Bond, the tedium of centering titles, the far greater tedium of retyping whole pages after dropping a line in transcription, and the sheer racket, I feel no nostalgia for the typewriter as an object of use.”
analog  dowdyworld  technology  typewriter 
april 2011 by M.Leddy
Newton Minow, fifty years later
Fifty years after “a vast wasteland,” Newton Minow proposes six goals for the next fifty years of communications technology.
culture  television  technology 
march 2011 by M.Leddy
A computer “with only the basics”
Area dad Paul Moyers is in the market for a computer “with only the basics”
humor  Mac  technology 
february 2011 by M.Leddy
Google navigation bar
“I noticed Google’s new navigation bar in a Gmail account yesterday and spent ten minutes or so figuring out that it’s a feature, not a bug.”
Google  technology 
february 2011 by M.Leddy
Infinite Jest, novelty
The Phoneless Cord
fiction  DavidFosterWallace  technology 
february 2011 by M.Leddy
AOL buys Huffington Post
With sarcastic pseudo-links.
culture  technology 
february 2011 by M.Leddy
NoteSlate
“[Y]ou will love the wooden feeling of writing or drawing.”
technology  writing 
february 2011 by M.Leddy
"I even use . . . chalk"
Low-tech teaching
analog  digital  education  faculty  learning  students  teaching  technology  university 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
A mystery challenge
An object from the past: what is it?
objects  technology 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
"I Can't Find My Phone"
Handy website calls your cell.
technology  telephone 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
Students and books
The appeal of paper
books  college  education  reading  technology  university 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Verizon Wireless refunds
Re: the infamous $1.99 key
technology  telephone  Verizon 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Carlo Rotella on laptops in the classroom
Bravo
college  education  laptops  technology  university 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Toughbooks and dolphins
Dolphin researchers choose the Toughbook over the iPad
technology 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Streaming music, 1910
Phonograph records played through telephones
music  technology  telephone 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Consider Frank Ryan
A cautionary tale
culture  technology 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
The story of QWERTY
Keyboard history
computer  design  technology  typewriter  writing 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
Orange telephone art
Retro telephone, orange
dowdyworld  technology  telephone 
july 2010 by M.Leddy
Infinite Jest and the iPhone
"Video telephony"
DavidFosterWallace  fiction  iPhone  technology 
june 2010 by M.Leddy
"[T]he social value of reading"
Verlyn Klinkenborg on what the iPad and Kindle do to the social value of reading
books  reading  technology 
june 2010 by M.Leddy
Infinite Jest, telephony
“Video telephony” v. “good old voice-only telephoning”
DavidFosterWallace  fiction  telephone  technology 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
iPad, the user as consumer
From The New Republic
iPad  technology 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
iPads at the IIT
No more distracting than laptops!
college  ipad  technology 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
Roger Ebert on 3-D
He hates it.
film  technology 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
PCs and mice
Suddenly they sound so out of date
Apple  computers  technology 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
On the iPad and early adopters
From the New York Times
apple  ipad  technology 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
Trying the iPad
"Typing — with the iPad propped up at an angle on a low table — is easier than I had expected but still tedious. I was reminded of what it’s like when I catch and correct typos on a cellphone. Because I’m looking at the keys and not the screen, I don’t see typos until I’m well past them. Tedious."
apple  ipad  technology 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
John Gruber on typing and the iPad
"You absolutely do not need a hardware keyboard for it. But if you're hoping to do any amount of serious writing with it (and, for obvious vocational reasons, I plan to), you're going to want one."
Apple  iPad  technology  writing 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
"Why I won't buy an iPad"
Cory Doctorow explains
Apple  iPad  technology 
april 2010 by M.Leddy
The iPad and college, continued
More on the iPad and the college market
college  iPad  technology 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
The iPad and dolphins
From The Onion
Apple  iPad  humor  technology 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
More on the iPad and college
Like it says
Apple  college  iPad  students  technology 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
Do It, Dolt
Testing a user interface at Apple Computer, 1982
Apple  reading  technology 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
iPad news
Re: the iPad and college
Apple  college  iPad  technology 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
The iPad and college students
The market Apple is after, I think
Apple  college  Mac  technology 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Lawrence Wright on writing tools
Index cards, legal pads, a fountain pen
analog  indexcards  paper  pens  technology  writing  writinginstruments 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Caroline's Crayons' telegram story
A story in pictures, from Caroline's Crayons
art  crayons  technology 
february 2010 by M.Leddy
Seven hours, thirty-eight minutes a day
Of electronic devices
culture  technology 
january 2010 by M.Leddy
Verizon data charges
Getting the charges dropped
technology  telephone  Verizon 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Pogue v. Verizon, continued
David Pogue keeping up the good fight
technology  telephone  Verizon 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Walt Mossberg reviews the Nook
“It's not fully baked yet.”
books  reading  technology 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
David Pogue reviews the Nook
A “bad case of Ship-at-All-Costs-itis”
books  reading  technology 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Uncle Mark 2010
Buying guide
shopping  technology  tips 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Edward Tufte on PowerPoint in schools
"The core ideas of teaching — explanation, reasoning, finding things out, questioning, content, evidence, credible authority not patronizing authoritarianism — are contrary to the cognitive style of PowerPoint."
education  EdwardTufte  PowerPoint  technology 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Verizon's $1.99 typos
A shoddy business practice
technology  telephone  Verizon 
november 2009 by M.Leddy
Student e-mail accounts on the wane?
"A short piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education suggests that the institutional practice of creating student e-mail accounts may be waning."
college  education  e-mail  students  technology  university 
november 2009 by M.Leddy
“Why E-mail No Longer Rules”
Facebook, Twitter.
culture  e-mail  technology 
october 2009 by M.Leddy
On "On the New Literacy"
So what do you think about the claim that “online media are pushing literacy into cool directions”?

I, uh, don’t see it.
college  technology  writing 
october 2009 by M.Leddy
Princeton students and the Kindle
“I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool,” said Aaron Horvath ’10, a student in Civil Society and Public Policy. “It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.”
analog  books  digital  reading  technology 
october 2009 by M.Leddy
Greeklish
"The growing use of Greeklish by schoolchildren is adversely affecting their spelling skills and may ultimately pose a threat to the Greek language, according to a recent study."
Greek  language  misspelling  spelling  technology  writing 
september 2009 by M.Leddy
Scrimping and printing
Are people printing as much as they used to?
money  print  technology 
august 2009 by M.Leddy
Eric Gill: control, distraction, and tools
Thoughts on writing and searching, inspired by Gill's comments on letterpress printing
EricGill  Google  Mac  pens  pencils  technology 
august 2009 by M.Leddy
Microsoft sans irony
Yes, Microsoft really hates the idea of one company dominating a market.
Google  Microsoft  technology 
august 2009 by M.Leddy
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