In the morning, go online
What do you do first when you wake up in the morning? Brush your teeth? Have breakfast? The New York Times says go online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/technology/10morning.html?em
Wash up, [connect,] change, eat, [browse, correspond, plan,] pack, [toggle away,] leave the house. Work online in brackets. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Yosem Companys<companys@stanford.edu> wrote:
What do you do first when you wake up in the morning? Brush your teeth? Have breakfast? The New York Times says go online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/technology/10morning.html?em _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Anyone who's ever had a dog (or three, as in my case) can put the lie to this article's conclusion. They (very much like infants and toddlers) aren't keen to wait for people to go online before the dependent is ready to begin her/his day. I expect that there are those who breast feed or diaper on the left while using the right hand for laptop activities such as checking email, but no one (who is normal) wants to try that with a 95 pound bloodhound hanging on one's arm... Why can't the NYT feature a story about going online without hyping it (or seriously considering the "digital divide"--not between hounds and people but between people and people)? -Lisa On 8/11/09 6:49 PM, "Samuel Klein" <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote: Wash up, [connect,] change, eat, [browse, correspond, plan,] pack, [toggle away,] leave the house. Work online in brackets. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Yosem Companys<companys@stanford.edu> wrote:
What do you do first when you wake up in the morning? Brush your teeth? Have breakfast? The New York Times says go online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/technology/10morning.html?em _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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OK, point taken: pet owners might live by a different standard. But given that dog ownership in the U.S. is by most accounts under 40% (see two sources below), it's still fair for the NYT to gawk at a very new trend. As the article exasperatingly declares, a single decade ago, this behavior was almost nonexistent. And now it's already permeated our culture (or maybe closer to 60% of it!) so completely that it's been ritualized as a kind of "fast breaking." You're also right that it's rather silly (although very typical) of a major newspaper to act astounded about the prevalence and therefore importance of internet consumption. Sources on dog ownership: http://www.hsus.org/pets/issues_affecting_our_pets/pet_overpopulation_and_ow... http://www.avma.org/reference/marketstats/ownership.asp On 08/11/2009 07:29 PM, McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr. wrote:
Anyone who's ever had a dog (or three, as in my case) can put the lie to this article's conclusion. They (very much like infants and toddlers) aren't keen to wait for people to go online before the dependent is ready to begin her/his day. I expect that there are those who breast feed or diaper on the left while using the right hand for laptop activities such as checking email, but no one (who is normal) wants to try that with a 95 pound bloodhound hanging on one's arm...
Why can't the NYT feature a story about going online without hyping it (or seriously considering the "digital divide"--not between hounds and people but between people and people)?
-Lisa
On 8/11/09 6:49 PM, "Samuel Klein" <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
Wash up, [connect,] change, eat, [browse, correspond, plan,] pack, [toggle away,] leave the house. Work online in brackets.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Yosem Companys<companys@stanford.edu> wrote:
What do you do first when you wake up in the morning? Brush your teeth? Have breakfast? The New York Times says go online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/technology/10morning.html?em _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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