Inspires a “HMMMMM”

Been reading “Fast Company” online.

Love that magazine and they’ve got a great website, easy to get around and visually stimulating.

Anyways, I came across this article “Social Networking and the Brain: Continuous Partial Empathy?” that’s really caught my attention.

Last summer I gave up using my Blackberry for the very same reasons(cons) this article talks about, unfortunately my life now REQUIRES that I’m pretty much glued to it.
(And when I’m not with it, I feel like a limb has been hacked and I’m sure I must “twitch” etc. etc. It’s really quite stupid!)

I’ve always wondered about how the age of “technological wackness” is effecting our ability to actually “take people in.”

It’s funny I’m talking about this on a “blog”.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m feeling that maybe blogs really are the way to accomplish (really paying attention to people and events) vs Twitter/Facebook/Flckr etc. etc.
(I.E. Social Networks that are actually inspiring “Social Numbness”).

Check out the article at : http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/jamais-cascio/open-future/continuous-partial-empathy

Twittering Times

I was recently watching an interview on PBS, I can’t recall who it was with but WHAT I do remember is someone stating how journalists have turned into “propagandists”.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to bury my head in the sand and ignore what’s going on in the world, but I will say that I’ve lost all faith in “journalists”
(and the overall-sources the general public has come to “rely” upon for local/global information) to the point where I will shamelessly read The NY Post before I even pick up The Times. There’s at least an honesty factor that the Post maintains- it’s “just” the Post, it’s not trying to be “The Times”.
However The Times – I feel has completely compromised itself and is a leading tool in the World of Propaganda, yet plays itself off as a reliable source for “real” and “important” news put together by “real and reliable” journalists.

Favorite headline today :

(From the LA Times)

“American Apparel slams Woody Allen’s sex life”

Yep, I woke up this morning wondering about this- along with what’s the death toll in Iraq, Nuclear Missile Launches in North Korea, Obama’s ability to really “Change” what he promised to the U.S/World when he stepped up to the plate of “US Presidency”, etc. etc. etc.

Paleezzz…..next thing you know the Times will be on Twitter- which just kinda… freaks me out.