Digital Overload: Your Brain On Gadgets : NPR →

August 29, 2010

This morning, NPR aired this “Digital Overload” interview with NYT’s Matt Richtel. It dovetails with the Times’s “Your Brains on Computers” series (latest installment here).

I heard only snippets of the NPR interview … because I was fiddling around online (doing “stuff”). Had I not been multi-tasking, I might have actually *listened* to the NPR story.

Makes me want to – and think I should – extend what I’ve dubbed “my self-imposed Facebook hiatus” a while longer.

Anybody else feel compelled to scale back online activity, even temporarily, as I’m doing, to help diminish digital overload?

I wonder if Rob Walker (whose insightful posts can be found at Murketing.tumblr.com, Unconsumption.tumblr.com, Murketing.com, @notrobwalker, and @significobs, among other places) is aware that this New York Times review of his book, “Buying In… — I wonder if Rob Walker (whose insightful posts can be found at Murketing.tumblr.com, Unconsumption.tumblr.com, Murketing.com, @notrobwalker, and @significobs, among other places) is aware that this *New York Times* review of his book, “Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are,” is making the rounds on Tumblr.

Via szymon:

Branded by Farhad Manjoo

August 5, 2010

December 5, 2009

Intriguing iPhone use, per NYT: digital music making.

Will mobile phone orchestras supplant traditional instrumental ensembles?

Will such orchestras resonate with audiences – and with classically trained musicians and musicians of all music genres?

Key quote from the story: “… anyone with a cellphone could become a musician.”

For the classical music industry, the ability for anyone to create music on mobile phones could help to enhance the general public’s overall appreciation for music and the music-making process.

A potentially useful audience-development tool? Perhaps.

Will you download a Smule app (or other companies’ apps) onto your phone?