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“My husband’s not doing the unplugged thing; he doesn’t feel he needs to,” she says. “So there are nights that I’m unplugged and he’s checking his e-mail and surfing on his laptop, and I’m like, ‘Grrrrr.’”

Friday night I was on ABC’s World News with Charlie Gibson, talking about 52 Nights Unplugged in the context of a segment about multi-tasking and time management.
TV is a weird beast, and one I’ve learned a lot about in the last year. For the curious, here’s what this particular experience was like.

“A lot of times you have nothing to show for hours spent online but a hunch back and a sore butt.”

Ariel Meadow Stallings, blogger at Microsoft

The ‘Secular Sabbath,’ a Day of Unwiring

I’m on about 42 minutes into the show

Ariel e la lotta alla videodipendenza “Stare sconnessi 52 notti all’anno”

My unplugging project showed up in the New York Times this morning, quite to my surprise: I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really.
THIS movement to unplug appears to be gaining traction everywhere, from the blogosphere, where wired types like Ariel Meadow Stallings (http://electrolicious.com/unplugged) brag about turning off the screen one day a week (and how […]

The producer of the “Unplugged” Today Show segment admits that she might have a problem, too.

So, I’ll be on The Today Show Wednesday morning for approximately 30 seconds (ok, maybe more like 2 minutes, but very very briefly!) talking about why I’m doing 52 Nights Unplugged and how it’s been going. There was a moment where it looked like the live segment was going to be cut completely, but instead […]