Good Grief!

Tomorrow, the fourth Sunday in January, is international Internet Free Day. This day is promoted as a day for “doing and being out in the real world:”

Get off your pad, dump your mouse and your electronic attachments for the day: the real world is open all day every day and would welcome a visit.

On a related note, Steve Cisler, a Silicon Valley resident who has been online since 1985, is going offline and taking a roadtrip to research the “digital divide:”

I think one of the problems with this phrase, the ‘digital divide’, is that it lumps all of those not using the technology into an undifferentiated mass. We need to understand the many reasons why people and organisations are not connected. I hope my project will put faces on the unconnected and dissolve the dichotomy.

He intends to publish a newsletter by writing from his laptop and mailing the letters to a friend, who will publish them on his weblog.