Tammy Green » Entries tagged with "amazon"
How to hide a birthday in the age of social media?
Can’t do it. I have a birthday, so the cat is out of the freakin’ bag. My friends have the information and they like to set up reminders. Innocently or not, they have fed the b-days to countless services. Oh, I’m complicit, too. I’ve fed the big day to sites that wanted to verify my age before poisoning my mind with adult matters. Haven’t I? Oh yes, I … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life
Here Comes Everybody
Here Comes Everybody starts off with a story of a stolen sidekick and how a group formed via commonly available social networking tools tracked down the thief, changed the NYPD’s approach to the problem, and subsequently got the property returned. I remember when that particular story broke, and I remember visiting the site set-up to handle the hoopla. At the time, I couldn’t tell you why it had a larger significance. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Books
The problem with shopping and languages
I thought of the perfect birthday gift today for a good friend. She’s interested in learning Spanish, has a natural curiosity about the ins and outs of colloquial terms, and has successfully learned a language on her own. She can sling slang in two countries so I thought I’d pick up a set of Pimsleur CDs or audio tapes so she could get started in another. Great idea, huh? The problem is I have no way … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life
I’m reluctant to invest in new sites, productivity tools and gadgets.
There. I admit it. That’s a pretty shocking admission for a Web professional to make, I know, but the truth is I like the comfort of already knowing how something works, the expectedness of results. Familiarity. It takes time, energy and lots of effort to learn about new tools and figure out how to make them work in my life. I need a reason to become vested. There are simply too many things vying for my attention. For example, why should I care about the newest Google incarnation of an aggregator? Everyone tells me how great it is and wonders why I’m not there, but truthfully, Bloglines still does what I need it to do. I’m sure there’s some feature I’m missing, but you know what? I have my browser toolbar set-up … Read entire article »
Filed under: Technology Shift
More perils of modern gift-giving
I frequently use my Amazon wish list as an extended brain because I find things while surfing and going through life, but I can’t be bothered to bookmark the information or otherwise store it. It breaks down like this: There are things on there I should look into, like the electric toothbrush suggested by my dentist Things that I find interesting and weird but will not buy, like a copy of The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi Things that pertained to my Master’s research, like the Harvard Business Review on Change Things that I might pick up for work, like of copy of Cultivating Communities of Practice Things that I would buy for myself but have no expectation of anyone ever buying for me because it’s too damned expensive, like a $1000 Canon lens for … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Life