Are You Paying Attention? ‘The Distracted Mind’
Multi-tasking on your smart phone consumes too many resources, including memory, and can cause the system to "choke". Imagine what it does to your brain.
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Google’s Burger Emoji: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
To those who would deny the Google burger because it's messy, I say, get a napkin and get over it.
A 21st-century Muckraker Pierces the Heart of the Internet in ‘Reading the Comments’
If Eggers' The Circle gave us a glance at the inimical nature of social media via Orwell’s idea of “groupthink”, then Reagle takes us even deeper into why we love to comment on anything and everything.
Are You ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’? Is That Such a Bad Thing? (Excerpt)
"I'm reading these days -- ironically, on the web -- that we don't read anymore," writes Kenneth Goldsmith in this excerpt of Wasting Time on the Internet, courtesy of HarperCollins.
Consider the Troll
The pressing question isn't so much what a troll is and how he came to be, but what to do when confronted with a troll.
If We Lose BBC Three, Will We Lose Our Sense of Humor, Too?
With the apparently inevitable closure of BBC Three, comedy lovers will mourn the loss of an important television ally. Will the Internet save it?
If You Can’t Say Anything Nice Save It for the Internet
On the Internet, both scholars and non-academics alike find something about the genre of comment to sink their canines into.
Who Made the Machines That Remade the World?
Walter Isaacson's The Innovators explores the history of the digital age as told through the intertwined lives of the men and women who created it.
Cassette Fever in the Age of Bandcamp
The cassette tape is a miniature monument to a lost age of music; a small casket in which to hide memories and last hopes.
The Way We Watch Television: ‘Sherlock’ By the Numbers
Fans of Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s Sherlock will go to great lengths to watch the television series. We know because we asked.
