Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • Monitoring MySpace: Parental and Political Pacification

    The Wall Street Journal reports that News Corp. is planning to offer free software that parents (and others with computer administrator privileges) can use to track the name, age and location provided by any users of that computer who access an account on MySpace. The article reports that "dozens of teens have been molested and…

  • Citizen Accountability Projects

    Last Friday’s Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition included an article by Jennifer Saranow entitled "The Snoop Next Door" that contains a roundup of a number of web sites dedicated to documenting deviancy from social norms, large and small. The title and photos led me to prepare for an alarming expose on the abuses of using…

  • Self-Reflection vs. Self-Expression

    How does technology’s facilitation of self-expression, instant communication and constant connectivity affect our inclination and ability to think for ourselves, assume personal responsibility and unite for social action? Sherry Turkle explores these and other questions in an interview with Liz Else published in a September 2006 New Scientist article entitled "Living Online: I’ll Have to…

  • Walking the Dog: Alone or Together?

    JoJo is a great dog — very friendly and generally well-behaved. I really enjoy walking her — by myself — as she stays fairly close, listens well and responds almost instantly to commands (except when swimming after ducks). The only time she is ever on a leash is when there are park rangers or other…

  • Work, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pleasure

    I blogged a bit about Living Without A Goal recently and went down a path I didn’t originally anticipate, focusing on utility and value and appreciation in life. I’d intended to say more about James Ogilvy’s views on work, but once I was plumbing the depths of what makes life meaningful, valuable and worthwhile, I…

  • Living Without a Goal: Mattering Without Being Useful

    God and Marx are both dead. Relativism has dethroned absolutism. In our postmodern world, how do we create meaning in our lives now in the absence of externally defined Grand Goals? In Living Without a Goal: Finding the Freedom to Live a Creative and Innovative Life, author James Ogilvy encourages us to adopt a more…

  • ABSolutely Obsessed: Men’s and Women’s “Health”?

    In the checkout line at Whole Foods last week, I looked over and noticed a couple of magazine covers: I was struck by a couple of thoughts: obsession over ab[domen]s does not appear to be gender specific … and neither does sex. Browsing around a bit for online images of the magazine covers, I was…

  • Self-Disclosure to the Fifth Degree

    Dan Oestreich, one of my favorite bloggers and best friends, has offered the mixed blessing of an invitation to reveal 5 things about myself that you may not know about me. This is challenging, not only because self-disclosure is risky, but I don’t know exactly who "you" are (but one of "you" may be my…

  • “Always Do Your Best”: Always or Never?

    Don Miguel Ruiz’ Four Agreements, and the book he wrote about them, have had a powerful influence on my perceptions, thoughts, feelings and actions (reflected in a number of blog posts, as well as the Values statement for Interrelativity, my closed-down start-up) over the two years since I first encountered them: Be Impeccable With Your…

  • Web-2-Mobile Business Plan Competition

    I was surprised that Nokia was not among the sponsors of the recent Under the Radar Mobility Conference I attended, at which 32 entrepreneurs pitched their mobile products and services. A number of other major players in the mobile web space were represented at the event as sponsors and/or panelists, e.g., Motorola Ventures, Intel Capital,…