G’DAY WORLD #255 – Jamais Cascio, Futurist
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist. He chatted with me last week about the “Participatory panopticon“, Sousveillance, and why everyone should take “democratic transhumanism” very, very seriously. Read Jamais’ blog to find out more about his views on the preferred future. You can also catch Jamais at the Singularity Institute‘s conference in September 2007.
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TPN’s Ben Wilkoff wins “Totally Wired Teacher Award”
Ben Wilkoff, host of TPN’s Education Transformation podcast, has just been declared the winner of the first Totally Wired Teacher Award which will be presented at the Ypulse Mashup in San Francisco! Read his post about the award. Congrats from all of us at TPN dude!
I want… a Herman Miller Aeron Chair
An Aeron. I want one. I have wanted one for ten years. Now… I think I finally deserve one. I spend all day sitting in front of this PC. I need comfort. I need bounce. I need a little bit of luxury.
Surely… one of you has a bunch of them sitting around at your office, hardly being used, that you picked up cheap after the DC1 crash. Think about donating one to poor me (You have to say those last two words in the voice of Livia Soparano… “oh, pooooor you”). Let me know what time to come around. I’ll meet you at the back entrance. No-one will notice.
e-mail bankruptcy
You’ve all heard me talk on G’Day World and The Productivity Show about how much freakin’ email I get and how it is a MAJOR blow to my productivity (and let’s not even START talking about Facebook…). Well it’s good to know I’m not the only one.
I sent an email to Sean Bonner at Metrobloggingtoday and rofl’d when I got an auto-response pointing me to this page on this blog. I need one of those. I’ve had auto-responses saying “too much email” before and they took away the feeling that I was letting people down by not getting back to them in a reasonable amount of time.
He has another great post on the subject here. I think he’s completely correct. Let’s break our addiction to foreign oil (or, actually, ALL oil) and to email.
Sigh. Okay. I’m getting back on Twitter to see if it helps me get off email. Somehow I think it’s akin to using crack to get off coke but we’ll see….