March 2007
3 posts
What your sneeze says
A new co-worker sneezed yesterday. I heard “kchew” three times in a row, and it sounded so delicate - almost like a hiccup - that I started laughing. She said, rather defensively, that she thought it was a pretty ordinary sneeze. Then another co-worker caught me laughing, and put me in my place: your sneeze, she said, is the funniest one I’ve heard. My sneeze? Well, I guess you...
Is Twitter too good? →
The question of continuous partial attention From Creating Passionate Users, some thoughtful analysis of the effect of constant update-itis, or the downside of intermittent rewards : “Ironically, services like Twitter are simultaneously leaving some people with a feeling of not being connected, by feeding the fear of not being in the loop. By elevating the importance of being...
