And on the Seventh Day They Stopped Texting, Twittering and All the Rest

Over at MediaShift Mark Glaser is writing about some crazy phenomenon wherein people choose (of their own free will, we presume, and not because a construction site has knocked out their internet) to turn off the internet for one day a week. It’s called a “Technology Sabbath” and is apparently catching on “among bloggers and media people who are overwhelmed with the always-on nature of the broadband Internet and smartphones.”