The End of Intimacy in an Instant World
I really miss asking you about your day. And hearing how you planned to make our world just a little brighter. The Twitter updates just doesn't seem the same to me.
I really miss asking you about your day. And hearing how you planned to make our world just a little brighter. The Twitter updates just doesn't seem the same to me.
Blaise Nutter | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
2008: Obama's team was frequently praised for keeping on message, and keeping that message consistent and professional. Now, they display an inability to craft a clear, concise message.
Michael Sigman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living
We have a transformative opportunity in moments when our rage impels us to lash out in retaliation.
Anne Hill | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
To gauge the pulse of the nation, I just step into my town's post office and see what strange things the mail has brought.
Eli Davidson | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
Do you find yourself sinking under the blaze of busy? Are papers marching across your desk in such a mad frenzy that your mind is goes blank the mome...
ABC News | KIM KOMANDO | Posted 08.11.2009 | Business
Spam is the bane of computer users everywhere, accounting for more than 90 percent of e-mail. And, now, cell phones are getting spam....
AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — After more than five years officially in testing mode, Gmail is finally graduating from "beta." Google Inc. says its e-mail service ...
Grant Cardone | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business
People are becoming overly reliant and falsely dependent upon emails, texting and the internet as a primary means of communicating.
Brooke Siler | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
Some people are happily distracted by their Twitters and Tweets and would have it no other way. I, on the other hand, begin sweating and twitching as I near my computer.
Aileen Kwun | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
While checking my morning emails and going about my usual business a few days ago, I received a frightening alert: my Gmail account was reaching near capacity.
Josh Levy | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media
Thanks to the Internet, the rest of us are feeling increasingly liberated from the shackles of corporate control over content.
Amy Nebens and Jara Negrin | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living
Her son was essentially friendless for the first few months of middle school because he wasn't texting and was therefore, out of the mix.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living
If a joke or email reflects racism, being "humorous" does not excuse it one little bit.
Karen Leland | Posted 05.30.2009 | Living
Welcome to the third and final post in the series on how to Simplify Your Online Life. If you're just joining us and missed the past two posts, you ca...
Karen Leland | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
Welcome to the second post in the "Simplify Your Online Life" series. For those of you who jumped on the bandwagon last week, congratulations. If you ...
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green
75 percent of this wasted energy is by us, the end user--consumed during all that time it takes us to delete the unsolicited junk. Therefore, having a smart spam filter is not only necessary for our sanity, it also has the global equivalent of taking 2.3 million cars of the road.
Karen Leland | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living
My computer had become the junk drawer of my electronic life.
Suzanne Grossman | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living
You are less alone in your job search than you might think.
Doree Shafrir | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media
I've decided that moms are able to pack so much into one email because they sit down at the computer as though they were making a phone call -- but end up just kind of talking to themselves.
LA Times | David Lazarus | Posted 05.05.2009 | Business
Free access to e-mail, bank accounts and networking sites -- now taken for granted -- may soon be a thing of the past....
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media
As new age media, we have a responsibility to accuracy, just like professional reporters. This means anything sent to you that says "forward this" should never be forwarded. It is spam.
Nicholas Weinstock | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business
Self-addressed email with you BCC'd: Translation: I have a list of contacts (a posse; a loyal cadre; a seething army) that I command and that is too numerous and too powerful for you to see their names.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business
Do you know how many people are festering right now because their corporate culture mandates exclusive use of digital communications? He's not answering his BlackBerry! I left him six e-mails! Aieee!
William Klein | Posted 04.12.2009 | Comedy
Under my proposal, every meeting, conference and company lunch will include one person to make Designated Eye Contact (DEC).
Spencer Green | Posted 04.11.2009 | Comedy
That's 24 hours in which no person, no media organization, no blogger, no social network, no whoever or whatever can disseminate, transmit, broadcast, pass along any new information to anyone else.
Zondra Hughes | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living