Ari Herzog

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Look to Asia

Ari Herzog

History books will say that both countries acted early and fought the coronavirus with multiple tactics. These included contact tracing to three degrees of separation, empowering citizens to report suspected cases via a mobile app, exposure risks regardless of symptoms, extensive quarantining, mask wearing, and social distancing.

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The 4 Social Networks I Use Most

Ari Herzog

Second, I’m using mobile devices (mostly my phone) for social media consumption much more than my MacBook despite its larger screen. But I’m mostly there for the news, books, and restaurants, respectively. People who do share political etc. posts once in a while are easy to ignore. My mental sanity takes priority.

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Why the Kindle Fire is Not For Me

Ari Herzog

I did not want a Kindle to replace the experience of reading tactile books when I wrote about it in February 2009. So, the Kindle Fire is great value and perhaps the best, tightest integration of digital content acquisition into a mobile device that we’ve yet seen. But a tablet as in a book reader? I also own a smartphone.

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The New Small

Ari Herzog

I discussed my second book, The Next Wave of Technologies. Another book?”. My next book is called The New Small: How a New Breed of Small Businesses is Harnessing the Power of Emerging Technologies. Technology books can be dry. To get the book out, I had a number of options. This one won’t be. A New Model.

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Hoping We Act More Cellularly Responsible

Ari Herzog

The April 26, 2004 issue of New York magazine contains an article about our emotional attachment to mobile devices. He or she may also feel the sense of loss that accompanies the departure of an assiduously compiled address book full of loved ones, hated enemies, and the professional contacts in between.

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September Thoughts on the Web

Ari Herzog

When you consider over 80% of American adults own a mobile device, it is ludicrous, suggests Audrey Watters, that schools are banning cell phones. Anyone with aspirations to write a book is encouraged to read Mark Schaefer’s step-by-step guide on how to self-publish your book. Stop blaming tools and applications.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

AOL was going strong and the books sold on Amazon were made of paper. Mine was the first Singapore-based Kickstarter project , an unsuccessful crowdfunding attempt for a historical/contemporary book set in Singapore. From Singapore I’ve watched the social media world develop its identity and characteristics. Thinking about Squiddo.

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