Choosing Sides.

I recently read an interesting article about a guy named Matt Honan who decided to like everything he saw on Facebook for 48 hours, and the disturbing impact it had on his News Feed, as well as on his life. As he writes, "See, Facebook uses algorithms to decide what shows up in your feed. It isn’t just a parade …

12 Sites I Like and Why

1. Magic Seaweed This is almost always the first site or app I open in the morning. If you are a surfer or a paddler, you already know about Magic Seaweed - your one stop shop for surf reports, forecasts, and webcams for spots around the globe. 2. Wikipedia C'mon, how useful is Wikipedia!? More than 77,000 active …

iPhone Orphans

Stumbled upon this interesting article by Beth Teitell. Parents have long been worried about how much time their kids spend online. But if you ask the kids, mom and dad are the ones who can’t turn away from the screen. Forever, the screen-time battles between parents and children have gone decidedly in one direction, with …

The Facebook Eye

Emile Zola famously stated back in 1901, "In my view, you cannot claim to have really seen something until you have photographed it." Today, some make a similar joke: "It did not happen unless it is posted on Facebook." For those who use Facebook, whose friends are on the site and logging in many times …

Are You Addicted to the Internet?

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The Power of Pressing Pause

I am an impulsive person. When I know I want something, I go after it. Sometimes foolishly. Just ask my wife. So I'm trying to learn the power of pressing pause. Of taking a step back and reflecting in the midst of a world that continues to move in fast-forward. So often we act on urges …

3 Ways to Get On Top of Social Media Before it Gets on Top of You

700 billion minutes. That's how much time Facebook's 500 million active users spend on the site every month! 700 000 000 000 minutes. That's the equivalent of 1,3 million years - nearly 18 000 lifetimes! And 7 years ago Facebook didn't even exist! What did we use to do with all that time?? A recent …

Must Have iPhone Apps

Free Apps Evernote turns your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your iPad to your desktop. The …

Must Have iPad Apps

Free Apps Zite is a personalized magazine for your iPad that automatically learns what you like and gets smarter as you use it. It gives you personalized news, articles, blogs, videos and other content from a variety of both mainstream and niche publications and sites, and have found it to be my number one news reader …

Platforms & Influence

This is a guest post by one of my favourite bloggers Jon Acuff that really articulates well the tension of self-promotion on the one hand, and Christ-like humility on the other, in our modern Christian culture. How do you grow a personal platform while at the same time honoring John 3:30 that says, “He (Jesus) must increase, but …

7 Ways to Turn Off Technology and Get More Done!

Studies show that the average worker is interrupted every 11 minutes! Distractions destroy productivity and complicate your life. And you can't blame others entirely for this. Tim Ferris, in his book "The 4-Hour Work Week" says that  "Blaming idiots for interruptions is like blaming clowns for scaring children—they can’t help it. It’s their nature." Often …

My Mom is on Facebook

So you finally caved. You've accepted a friend request from your mom. Don't worry, everyone's doing it. In fact, according to surveys by InsideFacebook.com the fastest growing age category on Facebook is 55-65! And in a more recent study, it was also shown that a large percentage of iPad users fell into the "senior" category. So, what does …