The "Why?" of social media -- and keeping your head above water

Here's an interesting article over at the New York Times' Book Review, talking about the movie Social Network and a new book by master programmer and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier called You Are Not a Gadget. Zadie Smith's article/review is more about her own history watching all this from a distance, and how she has purposely chosen to opt-out of the current craze.

( And the world spins faster )

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/25/generation-why/?pagination=false

And I was thinking about canceling my land line....

The book "Disconnect" and why our cell phones may be killing us.

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/10/10/disconnect_cell_phone_interview/index.html

I admit, I use a signal modulator on my cell phone. If the phone is on, it goes crazy if I drive under high volume power lines, trying to screech out my tape player (old car...) And I wear a modulator, and I have one plugged into the wall next to where I work. If my machines were newer, I'd slap the modulators on them, too. I carry my cell phone in a little pouch tied to my purse. It works for me.

CieAura and giaWellness sell modulators, among other people. You can try some cheaper ones out over at CieAura (there's a link at my Live Journal list on the left)or I can give central Texas people a name of a giaWellnes diastributor to investigate the plug-in and wearing variety!

But I was planning to get rid of the land line, which is mostly used by solicitors based on getting a Sales Tax Id number again. None of whom sell a product I want. Decisions, decisions....