It’s rather unsettling to think of yourself as a crotchety tech basher, when you’re usually very pro-tech. Yesterday, I had a stressful time trying to get enough interviews completed for my story during regular business hours, and I found myself cursing my lack of a smartphone so that I could check my e-mail every 30 [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Information at the Speed of Light
Posted in Tech, tagged blackberry, debate, information, rants, smartphone, Tech on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mis-Tech
Posted in Travel, tagged car, car games, family, gadgets, globe and mail, road trips, stunted creativity, tech abuse, uncreative on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Apparently the newest trend in parenting is to encourage kids to sit in the back seat and shut up. How else to explain the recent series in the Globe and Mail’s Drive section about keeping your children entertained during long drives? Endless games of I-Spy irritating you? Save your sanity by encouraging your kids to [...]
On Interviewing
Posted in Journalism, tagged experience, fears, interviewing, Journalism, learning, mistakes, phones, practice, questions, tl;dr on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve unintentionally put this blog on hiatus since the big run up to Christmas break, but I’m going to attempt to give this equal priority with all the other projects I have this semester. In that light, this first post back is related to interviews I’ve just conducted for a magazine article I’m writing… Reading [...]
