Don’t take your Blackberry into the bedroom

Posted by Jim Stolze on March 3rd, 2009
Is there a relationship between Internet Usage and Happiness? That was the research question of my project called the Virtual Happiness Project. As you might remember I spent the whole month of December being offline, just to experience what that did to me and the people around me. I was asked to talk about my experience [...]

Back in the digital jungle

Posted by Jim Stolze on February 5th, 2009
As you may know I took part of an experiment last December. An experiment to see wether or not you can live without the internet in modern society. And of course, you can. We’re not talking about living without food or water, however it seems that more and more people feel that a wireless internet [...]

Goodbye internet, goodbye email

Posted by Jim Stolze on November 30th, 2008
Well that’s it. Tomorrow is my first day in offline land. I’ll be disconnected from the internet: no email, no google, no blogging, no twitter… no nothing. Why? Because I want to know how that is. What am I going to miss the most? And what are the things that I’m happy to miss? These crazy questions [...]