Category: Digital Dilemma

Textual Relations

I first started texting in 2001 when I spent 6 months in Paris as an exchange student. Everybody texted because it was cheaper than calls.  When I returned texting didn’t catch on until a while later. Now texting is one of the…

The Creative Process

For some reason I instinctually want to begin the creative process in analog.  Maybe it’s because I’m a musician so creating organically feels the most natural.  Whenever I want to write, I always reach for paper first and then I remind myself to use…

Portable Devices

I love my portable devices.  All of them.  My smartphone, tablet (iPad), iPod, and e-reader.  I feel lucky to have so many neat and functional gadgets.  In August I spent a weekend at my friends’ beach house on Fire Island,…

Interest-based Advertising

After last week’s posting, Big Data Targets, about a woman employing various strategies to prevent her pregnancy from becoming an advertising target, I felt a renewed interest to explore more about how my data is collected and used each time I use the…