Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes which are unlikely to be completed when we have t...
I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their...
I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum users. It seems to me like these things would be much better expressed in non-confrontational, poli...
One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one...
The Internet Was Made For Business
Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!
Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good. NetworkEtiquette.net
Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people had a sense of being able to control some of the contingencies in their lives. What people knew...
Maxim 33:If you're leaving tracks, you're being followed.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification.
When we go online, we commit ourselves to the care of online mechanisms. Digital Band-Aids for digital wounds. We feed ourselves into machines, hoping some algorithm will digest the mess that is our e...
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.
I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.
If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.
Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.
Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's not just a magnet for the curious. It's a sinkhole for the gullible. It renders everyone an instant...