This article, called “Technoslave,” recently appeared in Adbusters. Here’s a convincing little statement: Scientists and psychologists are now beginning to classify technology dependency as a major health problem, putting it in the same categories as alcoholism, gambling and drug addiction. The stress it creates is causing arthritis, migraines and ulcers. Technology is all about how you [...]
Archive for April, 2008
I’m okay with being a progress-slave
April 28, 2008
Edit > Undo
April 23, 2008
Michael Kinsley has an excellent article in Time about the editor/writer dynamic at publications. He sides with the writer. Writers, [editors] say, are whiny, self-indulgent creatures who spend too much time alone. They are egotistical, paranoid and almost always seriously dehydrated. Above all, they are spectacular ingrates. Editors save their asses, and writers do nothing [...]
Party boy
April 17, 2008
I really like Virginia Heffernan’s blog. Here’s her article from the NYT magazine about Evites and the complexities of online party invitations. Afterwards she suggests alternates to Evite: For the supremely confident only: Twitter to tell your followers where you’ll be in 10 minutes, and expect a crowd. I think she’s on to the Kelly [...]
When media meets media
April 16, 2008
There’s a great article about the culture clash between Silicon Valley and Hollywood in the New York Times yesterday. The whole thing is interesting, but I’d like to highlight part of it. It’s a quote from a Sony exec: “I don’t know if they feel they don’t need us or are going directly to the [...]
Technology in College — for its own sake
April 14, 2008
This was an article originally written for the Los Angeles Loyolan but it was also published at HackCollege.com. I’m part of the last generation of “Film Production” majors to go through LMU. The School of Film and Television is phasing out the major and already, the sophomores and freshmen major in something different: just plain [...]
My summer
April 14, 2008
For the record, I’m PAing for G.I. Joe and interning at Revision3 this summer. It’ll be a blast.
