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Is YouTube’s freemium paywall a step too far for the social web?

Ciaran Treacy9 years ago

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Has YouTube lost its way by introducing a paywall for some content?And why are we so uncomfortable with ads in our social networks? Ciaran Treacy has a look

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Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Gmail's new email-formatted ads are rolling out but how can you use them and are these interactive email ads a welcome addition to Gmail?

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“We need to encourage business to use reputable, qualified web developers,” says the IIA

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Businesses need to recognise the importance of professional web development, according to the head of the Irish Internet Association, Joan Mulvihill.

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Bloomberg: Google’s Dublin offices saving Google billions in US and Irish tax

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Twitter to sell highly targeted ads

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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It is the start of 2022, and with every new year comes the loft ambitions of new year’s resolutions.

If one of your resolutions is to spend less time on your phone, or looking at screens, then you are in the right place, because in this episode we will look at digital detoxes and how you can implement them.

To do this, we are speaking with Andrew Selepak, a Social Media Professor at the University of Florida.

In this episode we discuss what a digital detox is and what technology it usually involves, how a digital detox can be realistically implemented without it negatively impacting our work, or even social connections, and the parallels between digital detoxes and food diets.

Selepak shares why going cold turkey with a digital detox is unlikely to be successful, why vacations are a good setting to implement a partial digital detox, and why turning off notifications and removing social media apps is the best way to start a detox.

He also explains why our use of technology shouldn’t be seen necessarily as an addiction, like a drug, but a tool that needs to be the correct way.

Additionally Selepak shares how a non-self imposed detox from his phone during a trip in Ireland taught him the importance of disconnecting, and how many of us fall into the trap of taking numerous pictures on holiday, with the ambition of posting on social media, instead of experiencing the trip in the present moment.

And finally, we discuss the role meditation can play to help limit our time with technology.