Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

The catch-up obligation

March 4th, 2008 · Comments

I subscribe to one daily newspaper, two weekly magazines, three monthly magazines and 42 RSS feeds. I receive about 100 non-spam emails per day on my personal account and 50-75 on my work account. I have more than 50 books on my bookcase at home waiting to be read.
I spend an inordinate amount of time [...]

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links for 2008-02-26

February 26th, 2008 · Comments

Twitter / tencommandments
Via Alex Rainert: http://twitter.com/arainert
(tags: twitter etiquette)

Least helpful apartment listing photo of all time
Via Curbed
(tags: craigslist funny)

The LinkedIn Blog: Announcing LinkedIn Mobile
(tags: socialnetworking linkedin mobile wap)

How To Manage Your Online Reputation - ReadWriteWeb
How Trackur matches up against Google Alerts, Technorati, Monitor This, Naymz, Rapleaf, etc.
(tags: tools identity reputation track)

Botanicalls Twitter DIY
We are officially in [...]

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links for 2008-02-25

February 25th, 2008 · Comments

MAKE: Blog: Macbook air - yes, it can be laser etched
Mine cost way too much to irreversibly decorate, but perhaps you’d like to put a monkey on your Air.
(tags: macbook_air personalization fun)

Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off In the U.S.
Is Facebook app spam driving users away? I certainly don’t use it as much
(tags: facebook statistics traffic [...]

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Quotes to live by

January 24th, 2008 · Comments

The design team moved downstairs to a new office space last week. We took over the former space of Jack Morton, an experience marketing agency. On one of the walls in the lobby is a set of quotes presumably said by Jack himself. I walked past a bunch of times without paying much attention, but [...]

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The Locks on My Front Door

January 13th, 2008 · Comments

I’ve lived in this apartment for almost two years, and yet I still haven’t developed the muscle memory for which way to turn the key to open the locks on my front door. No, I’m not a total dolt. I’m pretty mindful of it actually, and have attempted to come up with a mnemonic. I [...]

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