This week I achieved a goal that’s been simmering on the back burner for a while: getting started with iPhone app development. Apple calls each of its new products “revolutionary,” but the iPhone platform (which also includes the iPod touch and the upcoming iPad) actually is, because it creates new ways to interact with the device. Beyond moving a mouse or clicking a button, the iPhone responds to movement, multi-touch and even puffs of air directed at the microphone. (more…)

The article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is a year and a half old, but I keep running into it:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

The premise is that because we now have instant access to a wealth of reference information online, we’re losing our ability to read long passages, concentrate and think. I disagree; here’s why. (more…)