According to Wired Magazine, the average American spends 8 to 9 hours a day in front of a screen. Based on the premise that information consumption should be as healthy as food consumption, the magazine suggests this as a ‘balanced diet’ in this information-overload age:
Now, I’m reasonably media-savvy, and the very existence of this blog [...]
(Populist philosopher Alain de Botton says that he loves his new project – a £30,000 fee for writing a book about Heathrow. He says that airports are “the imaginative centres of our civilization.”
On the day his appointment was announced, I was in Terminal 3, on my way to Stockholm. So here’s my immediate take [...]
Sit looking at a blank blogging screen for long enough, and eventually the most unlikely memories arise as you search for an opening sentence. It’s just happened again, which explains why this piece doesn’t start in Schenzen, but on a train in a story by David Nobbs.
“Cupid’s Dart” was a TV film that Nobbs wrote [...]
So, you’ve built a very successful business. You’ve put heart and soul into it, burnt the midnight oil, taken risks, made sacrifices, reached your goals. You are now richer that Croesus and more famous than the Queen.
Next step? The business biography.
You interview some ‘co-writers’, select one you like, set to work and within a few [...]
Thoughts on the news from Iceland
As well as being an interesting data set in itself, this New Scientist graphic is a master class in information design. A rich source of facts and a joy to read:
Source: Exploring the Exploding Internet. New Scientist, April 2009
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