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Your Online Privacy

January 16, 2012

 

Interview with Lori Andrews, author of the book I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy

 

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Mike Carruthers:
We’ve all heard the caution to be careful about what you post on Facebook or elsewhere online because it could come back to bite you.

 

Lori Andrews:
35% of employers say that they will not hire a person because of a Facebook post primarily having a drink in your hand.

 
Lori Andrews

How To Get Others To Help You

November 4, 2011

 

Interview with Liz Lynch, author of the book Smart Networking: Attract a Following In Person and Online

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you're looking for a job or looking to advance in your career it's important to know that people do want to help you.

 

Liz Lynch:
But you have to realize that what you ask for has to be in proportion to the relationship you have with somebody. So something that your best friend might go out of their way and walk over nails to do for you - someone you don't know as well may not be able to do that.
 
Liz Lynch

The Speed Of Life

August 10, 2011

 

Interview with Vincent Poscente, author of the book The Age of Speed: Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Life seems to be moving at a faster and faster pace and often that increasing speed of life is viewed as a negative.

 

Vincent Poscente:
Speed is vilified - "haste makes waste, slow and steady wins the race" but I don't know how many races people win by going slow.
 
Vincente Poscente

How We Use Electronic Media

August 1, 2011

 

Interview with Thomas Cooper, PhD author of the book Fast Media, Media Fast: How to Clear Your Mind and Invigorate Your Life In an Age of Media Overload

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Technology has changed our lives but the change is not all good for all people, for some it has become an addiction.

 

Thomas Cooper PhD:
People unable to leave their cell phone, to leave their hand held device, people unable to stop watching sports every night, those kinds of media addictions allow us to become the first culture to spend more time with machines than with each other.
 
Thomas Cooper, PhD

Coping With New Technology

July 6, 2011

 

Interview with Brian X. Chen, author of the book Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--and Locked Us In

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Whenever new technology has appeared there have always been people to condemn it.

 

Brian X. Chen:
All the way back to Socrates, Socrates feared the pen he thought that writing things down would make us not be able to memorize things ever again.
 
Brian X. Chen

How Technology Changes How We Live

June 1, 2011

 

Interview with Jason Ohler, author of the book Digital Community, Digital Citizen

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Ever since cellphones became available people have complained they are a big distraction.

 

Jason Ohler:
Well I think most people have that visceral experience where they’re talking to somebody and a text comes in and they say, “I gotta take this.”
 
Jason Ohler

Technology's Impact On Relationships - Part 2

February 2, 2011

 

Interview with Sherry Turkle, author of the book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

 

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Mike Carruthers:
More and more people would rather text than talk on their cell phones and when you ask them why?

 

Sherry Turkle:
They say I’m not in control of the conversation if I call.
 
Sherry Turkle

Technology's Impact On Relationships

February 1, 2011

 

Interview with Sherry Turkle, author of the book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Technology has created a definite shift in how we relate to each other as individuals.

 

Sherry Turkle:
Because people would rather text than talk – we’re so connected that we don’t have time to think.
 
Sherry Turkle

Using Technology To Save Money

January 11, 2011

 

Interview with Ellie Kay, author of the book The 60-Minute Money Workout: An Easy Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Finances into Shape

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The beginning of the year is a good time to examine just how you’re spending your money.

 

Ellie Kay:
You ought to re-evaluate your automobile policy, you ought to re-evaluate your homeowner’s policy, and I also think you ought to re-evaluate your cell phone policy.
 
Ellie Kay

Problems With The Internet

January 5, 2011

Interview with William Davidow, author of the book OVERCONNECTED: The Promise and Threat of the Internet

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Few people would argue that the Internet has tremendous benefits.

 

William Davidow:
But it also made the financial crisis of 2008 much worse, it was involved in Wiki Leaks, it is involved in the loss of our privacy.

 
William Davidow


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