Why I’m giving up broadband for 56K
David McCandless explains why he’s given it the boot.

“Sit down to work. Ten minutes in, the new mail icon tempts me from the bottom of the screen. I’ll just check. Nothing like a few juicy new e-mails. Click a few links. Scan a few websites. Oh 20 minutes has just passed. Better get back to work. Now where was I? Start work again. Feel like a reward. I’ll just check news.bbc.co.uk. See if anything’s happened in the three minutes since I last looked. Follow a few ‘related links’…

Half an hour has passed. I feel like I’ve done something, but actually I haven’t. All that’s happened is that I’ve been distracted by constantly rising info urges. I spend most of my day like this, divided between what I need to do and what the internet wants me to do – which is look at it. Constantly.”

This is a really good article, I can’t dispute what he is saying, but I could never do it. That would be like chopping off my arm and my head, and what good would that do?

(This article was found on Jennifer‘s blog)