Year: 2009

There is too much noise in my life, and technology is partially to blame. Let’s start with cell phones. When I enter a theater or a meeting, I try to remember to put it on […]

I admit it. I’m a procrastinator. It was just a couple of weeks ago that I got around to finishing up my 2008 tax returns, which should have been filed in April. Fortunately, the IRS […]

I’ve been a big fan of “cloud computing,” but the public’s acceptance of storing vital data on remote servers may take a hit because of media reports about T-Mobile Sidekick users losing personal data. I […]

While I fully understand the gravity of putting something on public record that you may later regret, I also worry about how fretting over the future implications of everything you say and do can affect […]

by Larry Magid There was a time when adults turned to Emily Post to help them know how to behave. She was an author and journalist who educated mid-20th century America about etiquette and manners […]

I’ve been traveling with a portable computer of one sort or another since the eighties. Back then and through most of the nineties my biggest frustration was that hotel rooms almost never had modem jacks […]

I appreciate all the great technological advances of the last 25 years or so but I sometimes question whether it’s all for the good. Don’t get me wrong — I love my big-screen TV, my […]