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Google Co-Founder’s Lessons In Mobile Phone Etiquette
12:43PM Rosa Golijan | Google’s Larry Page gives us a lesson in mobile phone faux pas by ignoring poor onetime movie mogul, Barry Diller, for a PDA. Actually, he doesn’t just ignore the man, he flat-out lets him know that the gadget is more important. More »
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Etiquette: Sex Almost Always Trumps Using Your Phone
11:01AM Jason Chen | Here’s a gadget etiquette lesson—the type I will be covering in the Ask Jason column. Tip: guaranteed sex always trumps using your iPhone for just about ANY REASON*. More »
Phones
Mobile Phone Users Are Some Rude-Ass People Nowadays
4:20AM Jason Chen | According to two surveys, one by Tellme and one by buzzd, mobile phone users are doing some pretty atrocious stuff and thinking it’s alright. The worst? Talking in a movie theatre. More »
Gadgets
Just Let Me Use My Gadgets
11:00AM Brian Lam | Lisa at Boingboing—OK, actually, my girlfriend—wrote about our long standing debate about checking email in public. Reading it I felt indignation, and then shame, but in the end I have to yet again disagree. More »
Online
Wired Explains Proper Etiquette In The World Of Social Technology
3:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Wired’s new issue, featuring guest writer Brad Pitt promoting the newest Brad Pitt movie starring Brad Pitt, goes deep into social technology etiquette. Can you answer your phone while peeing? Is it okay to lie on Facebook? All is revealed. More »
Gadgets
2:17PM Nick Broughall | Our lives today are filled with the latest and greatest technology. Wherever we go, whatever we do, chances are there’s something in our immediate vicinity that runs off electricity or battery power – hell, for us geeks it’s practically sacrilege to leave the house without phones, laptops, MP3 players and digital cameras. But with this growing dependence and acceptance of gadgets as an extension of ourselves, somewhere along the line some of us forgot that we are still people, and still require to maintain a consideration for our fellow man or woman. After all, even though it is our ability to create and use gadgets that separates us from the animals, it is our ability to understand their social impact that makes us truly human. More »
We’d Like To Interrupt This Broadcast To Discuss Gadget Etiquette…
2:17PM Nick Broughall | Our lives today are filled with the latest and greatest technology. Wherever we go, whatever we do, chances are there’s something in our immediate vicinity that runs off electricity or battery power – hell, for us geeks it’s practically sacrilege to leave the house without phones, laptops, MP3 players and digital cameras. But with this growing dependence and acceptance of gadgets as an extension of ourselves, somewhere along the line some of us forgot that we are still people, and still require to maintain a consideration for our fellow man or woman. After all, even though it is our ability to create and use gadgets that separates us from the animals, it is our ability to understand their social impact that makes us truly human. More » 
