Comments on: Cell phones and the Purple Bubble http://www.ephblog.com/2009/06/27/cell-phones-and-the-purple-bubble/ All Things Eph Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:38:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Aidan http://www.ephblog.com/2009/06/27/cell-phones-and-the-purple-bubble/#comment-58905 Aidan Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:35:49 +0000 http://www.ephblog.com/?p=18559#comment-58905 I twitter, but unless you are in the biotech/biopharma space, probably uninteresting. I twitter, but unless you are in the biotech/biopharma space, probably uninteresting.

]]> By: Vermando '05 http://www.ephblog.com/2009/06/27/cell-phones-and-the-purple-bubble/#comment-58796 Vermando '05 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:21:57 +0000 http://www.ephblog.com/?p=18559#comment-58796 This doesn't seem right to me. Most parties at Williams are underground because of the drinking age and cell phones help set that up enormously. Leaving aside the whole being late / live in the moment stuff - that seems to extend into a philosophical debate that nobody can win - the idea that cell phones kill parties by allowing people to all go to the coolest one just seems nonsense. Where does everyone go who sends text messages about how lame their current party is? Presumably there is some cool party out there, and cell phones help you find it, rather than the next morning being the only one at the dining hall for breakfast because you were at a lame party while everyone else had a great time. This doesn’t seem right to me. Most parties at Williams are underground because of the drinking age and cell phones help set that up enormously.

Leaving aside the whole being late / live in the moment stuff – that seems to extend into a philosophical debate that nobody can win – the idea that cell phones kill parties by allowing people to all go to the coolest one just seems nonsense. Where does everyone go who sends text messages about how lame their current party is? Presumably there is some cool party out there, and cell phones help you find it, rather than the next morning being the only one at the dining hall for breakfast because you were at a lame party while everyone else had a great time.

]]> By: David http://www.ephblog.com/2009/06/27/cell-phones-and-the-purple-bubble/#comment-58768 David Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:48:41 +0000 http://www.ephblog.com/?p=18559#comment-58768 Thanks for an interesting post. If you are taking requests, I would be curious to know what is going on with <a href="http://twitter.com/ephblog" rel="nofollow">EphBlog's twitter account</a> in more details. I confess to almost completely ignorance on this topic, but have been trying to get a clue by reading <a href="http://stephencrose.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/twitter-tip-paring-down-your-following-list/" rel="nofollow">Stephen Rose '58</a>, but that has raised more questions than answers. Pairing down your twitter list to 2,000?!? I would also be curious about the experiences of any Twitter users. Do you find EphBlog's feed useful? Any requests? With Twitter, it would seem more useful for me (and others) to provide informative titles, perhaps include author name in the feed? (And a big thanks to Ronit for doing so much with Twitter.) Thanks for an interesting post.

If you are taking requests, I would be curious to know what is going on with EphBlog’s twitter account in more details. I confess to almost completely ignorance on this topic, but have been trying to get a clue by reading Stephen Rose ‘58, but that has raised more questions than answers. Pairing down your twitter list to 2,000?!?

I would also be curious about the experiences of any Twitter users. Do you find EphBlog’s feed useful? Any requests? With Twitter, it would seem more useful for me (and others) to provide informative titles, perhaps include author name in the feed? (And a big thanks to Ronit for doing so much with Twitter.)

]]> By: lgeorge http://www.ephblog.com/2009/06/27/cell-phones-and-the-purple-bubble/#comment-58755 lgeorge Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:46:26 +0000 http://www.ephblog.com/?p=18559#comment-58755 Thanks for that link @1. I remember a reunion not too long before then, when few cell phones worked (and the Alumni Office kindly acted as a message center) and then the next one, the first post-September 11th one for my class, when the phones worked in much of the valley. The article caught the beginning of it. I remember walking across the campus during the first of those two reunions and being grateful that, unlike where I was coming from, people didn't have phones at their ears and their minds elsewhere; not so much the next time (and security was WAY stricter the second time). One blast from the past from the linked article: it speaks of Baxter being "renovated" -- oh well. Thanks for that link @1. I remember a reunion not too long before then, when few cell phones worked (and the Alumni Office kindly acted as a message center) and then the next one, the first post-September 11th one for my class, when the phones worked in much of the valley. The article caught the beginning of it. I remember walking across the campus during the first of those two reunions and being grateful that, unlike where I was coming from, people didn’t have phones at their ears and their minds elsewhere; not so much the next time (and security was WAY stricter the second time).

One blast from the past from the linked article: it speaks of Baxter being “renovated” — oh well.

]]> By: Mike http://www.ephblog.com/2009/06/27/cell-phones-and-the-purple-bubble/#comment-58753 Mike Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:13:20 +0000 http://www.ephblog.com/?p=18559#comment-58753 http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=opinion&id=141 http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=opinion&id=141

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