Electrolicious

Yesterday I worked from home in the afternoon, so I had my first experience of having to be disciplined about when it was time to turn the computer off. Typically, I just tell myself that when I get off the wifi-enabled bus, that’s it. I step off the bus and into my unplugged existence. But [...]

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 [...]

Yes, I did something that just last week I said I couldn’t do: I switched up unplugged night! Due to some scheduling issues that are interesting to absolutely no-one (including me), I opted to switch this week’s Unplugged Night to Tuesday instead of Wednesday.
A big part of that was that I decided it was finally [...]

Oof. Wednesday night was hard. Unplugged night started at 5pm Eastern, when I boarded a plane in New York heading home from a super intense day. Predictably, it’s always hardest for me to unplug when there’s all sorts of shit going on online.
And at 5pm EST on Wednesday, there was a lot going on [...]

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 [...]

I spent the first half of unplugged night having dinner with my old friend Hott Scaapala Scott Haapala, and we spoke of cyborgs and corporate costumes and didn’t glance at our cell phones once.
After we said our goodbyes, I made a cup of tea and sat down on the couch with Sassafras. I had a [...]

Unplugged Night was awesome again! I spent the evening brainstorming and drawing and idea-making with my friend Joriel, who was knitting. Andreas, meanwhile, had a bad day and needed to veg, so he hid in the bedroom watching movies and drinking all night. (Poor thing!)
I was also mulling over the nature of distraction, and why [...]

Ooh, it’s another unplugged night! I’m excited for it this week and not feeling that impending sense of urgency and dread I had last week. I have lots of brainstorming I need to do on my new book project and am planning on using large felt tip pens and perhaps some interpretive dance to loosen [...]