Bad links and information loss
Although the internet is being touted as a next-generation library, I don’t think it should be considered so until someone solves the problem of extinct web sites. More often than […]
Category Archives: being digital
About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Making food waste environmentally friendly
Perhaps one of the merits of living in a tiny country is that waste-related policies make way for development of unique related products. Environmental consciousness is forced instead of being […]
Vista and Active X Make the Worst Couple
Aside from the annoying facts that I can’t play old computer games or use my almost-new printer, Vista is terribly annoying when it comes to web sites laced with Active […]
Blocked- or not?
While running some tests for the Open Net Initiative while I’m in Korea, I’ve interestingly discovered that most of the sites that are “blocked” for me are not because the […]
Cacti, Computers, and Virility
Spending time in a country where people are obsessed about virility, I think it is worthy to look into the alleged side-efffects of digital devices, in light of increasing infertility […]
Tracking (stalking?) made easy
Sometimes it takes an article in the New York Times to realize what an advantage it is technologically speaking, to live in a small country. It’s especially amusing when writers […]
Texting during a video conversation.
Yesterday, I was waiting to meet someone at Pasgucci and was looking around, bored. I noted unsurprisingly, that half the people were on their cell phones. I was intrigued, however, by […]
Internet porn affecting sex lives of couples
Yesterday, I heard a very interesting phenomenom regarding the Internet’s effect on people’s sex lives. According to B, who is a family doctor and nutritionist, she is seeing an increasing […]
D. Yvette Wohn 