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November 16, 2007

the “Digital Life” we lead

 I’m starting a new theme for some posts on this maccog blog.  You may have noticed that we call ourselves “Digital Life Coaches”… well it may seem dippy and futuristic, but it is here. Your digital life is here, even if you don’t have a computer.  Your car, your bank, your stereo, your TV, your phones, heck even your refrigerator are becoming digital and there is nothing you can do about it… or is there? 


 Well the first thing I suggest to do is embrace it. Learn about it. Get excited by the little things and revel in the parts that make your life better while getting rid of the ones that complicate or worsen it.

To start off this discussion, I want to quote a post from the British comedian Steven Fry who has a new column in The Guardian which I love already. 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2198814,00.html

To illustrate my point, this is how he begins the column:

Digital devices rock my world. This might be looked on by some as a tragic admission. Not ballet, opera, the natural world, Stephen? Not literature, theatre or global politics? Even sport would be less mournfully inward and dismally unsociable.

Well, people can be dippy about all things digital and still read books, they can go to the opera and watch a cricket match and apply for Led Zeppelin tickets without splitting themselves asunder. 

Stay tuned for more stuff about my (and your) digital life!

Category iconBlog,  iPhone,  Mac,  Need to know,  Web 2.0

November 15, 2007

Net Neutrality and the Soviet Ministries

http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20071021/free-my-phone/

Thank you, Walt Mossberg, for eloquently stating the problems with the
US cellphone market… and illustrating the problem with making my
iPhone free and open!

Category iconBlog,  Need to know,  Web 2.0

March 2, 2006

be careful what you wish (search) for

I don’t want to be alarmist and get people worried, but this article got me a little concerned about our privacy when we perform web searches. There are very few privacy laws protecting your search history from being subpoenaed by the government or any criminal case. This includes Google, MSN, AOL, Yahoo and others. So if you’re doing searches like “How to make a car bomb”… um… do it from a cyber cafe, not from your computer.
For those of you whose searches are not illegal, just embarrassing, don’t worry yet. But we should put pressure on Google and the others to delete users’ search histories after 30 days or so (ironically, AOL has the best policy on this. They delete all search history after 30 days already. Yeah, who woulda thunk it?)

http://news.zdnet.com/2102-9588_22-6034666.html?tag=printthis


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