Slow Teachin'

http://joekraus.com/were-creating-a-culture-of-distraction

http://m.technologyreview.com/business/40325/

Turkle, Sherry (2012) "The Flight from Conversation," New York Times, accessed April 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html

Google's Internet glasses a window into isolation http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/05/BU7U1NVHJV.DTL

Tony Schwartz "Slow Down, You Move to Fast" Harvard Business Review, April 3, 2012

The Calming Technology Lab (CTL) at Stanford University is an inter-disciplinary group of scholars, designers, and builders that are inventing and evaluating technologies that create states of calm.

An interview with George Scialabba http://thenewinquiry.com/features/an-interview-with-george-scialabba/#more-11318

"Look at your fish." http://robinsloan.com/fish Brilliant.

If you live in the modern world, leaving Google is both heresy and damn difficult to do. My primary motivation is that I don't believe Google's privacy protection claims. But you should know I cannot know the truth of its claims; I simply don't trust them. I was raised to be skeptical.

Last March, a group of ecologists and engineers taking advantage of advances in collecting, storing and analyzing vast quantities of digital data declared a new field of science: soundscape ecology. Other disciplines have long observed how various sounds affect people and individual animal species, but no one, they argued in the journal Bioscience, has yet studied the interconnected sounds of whole ecosystems. Soundscapes — composed of biological utterances like birdcalls, geophysical commotions like wind and running water and anthropogenic noises like motors — are “an acoustic reflection of the patterns and processes of the landscape,” the paper’s lead author, Bryan Pijanowski, an ecologist at Purdue University, told me. “And if we can take sound samples and develop appropriate metrics, we might be able to say, ‘Hey, this is a healthy landscape and this is an unhealthy landscape.’ ”

Jerry Ravetz, philosopher at large who dreamed up the "post normal science" movement

Caught this in late Feb NTEN web newsletter and couldn't resist.

Slow Planet is a nice starting place and clearinghouse for many a Slow movement

[he's speaking at POD this year, yay!]

SumOfUs has started a petition to ask Apple to demand better labor practices from its suppliers before the iPhone 5 comes out.

It reminds me of responses people have to a speaker-listener/understander model of communication we have been experimenting with where the speaker talks to someone whose job is only to listen, no interruptions or interjections.  The listener's task is then to recount what they heard but in the frame of understanding, so that that the speaker hears themself through the filter of the listener.