Temecula Tech

My former colleague and collaborator at Apple, Bonnie Nardi, has done some interesting research on blogging. I really liked Why We Blog [PDF], which was a study of various people and why they started and continued to maintain their blogs. We read that paper in a couple of classes I taught and students enjoyed it. […]

Stephen Johnson’s commentary, Hillary vs. the Xbox, makes a number of good points about the benefits of playing video games (and one of the drawbacks — lack of exercise). Regarding the harmful effects of violent games, he points out the following:
I’d like to draw your attention to another game whose nonstop violence and hostility has […]