bouncingboomergirlgeek: fyi & fwiw

Texting Counts More Than Sex with (Some) Women

"One Third of All Women Pick Cells Over Sex" said the teaser on my Yahoo home page, so of course I clicked and read it. That's not all they reported. In addition to noting the cities in which roughly 1/3 of the females said they'd give up sex before they gave up their cell phones, this recent study reported that 80% of cell users spend up to 20% of their waking hours IM'ing, while more than a third of all respondents said they prefer texting to talking live. Some will see these stats as the death of civilization as we knew it. Draw your own conclusions; I merely convey the data. Rest of story is here.

Eyes On Your Chest or Brain on a Stick?

At a future tech event about 12 years ago, some speaker predicted within a decade Moore's Law would make it possible to pack your whole life on one digital card that fit in your pocket.

He didn't just mean all your papers and email, or even all music and photos. He literally meant your entire conscious experience, a continuous stream of everything seen or heard in real life or online, captured and carried in one device.

My first thought in that pre-Google era was how-in-heck would one organize such a sea of data? A card filled with my entire experience would be pretty darn useless if it was as big a moshpit as my desk. And even if I could filter for relevance, I can't imagine wanting to rewind that much.

Well, fast-forward us back to the future, but here is a story about a product that sounds spookily similar, arriving just as predicted, about a decade later.

Bits & Bytes from the Front of My Brain

Hot out of my InBox and my RSS feeds, some potentially interesting snips crossed my path this week:

• WallStats site is "reborn"
  Jess Bachman, one of my favorite info-artists, has changed the whole look of his blog and web site. Page and web designers will enjoy this posting with his before and after pics, along with  detail about the reasoning behind his new format. (Looks to me like he's been spending time around the work of Steve (Don't Make Me Think) Krug.) While you are at the WallStats site, you might also enjoy his latest, a lightening-fast-forward video replay of how he built this one poster frame by frame:
  
     Flowcapping: Golden Parachutes
     from Jess Bachman on Vimeo. 

• Speaking of favorite info-artists, Jessica Hagy (Indexed) made me laugh again today:

Genes or grades. Or grades of genes.
Debate away.

Happy New E! (an e-card from Nina B.)

I am the creator of this graphic and it is my gift to everyone who wishes to celebrate what happened yesterday. Enjoy and share wherever you wish!

Happy New E. to us all,

Nina B.

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