{"id":2176,"date":"2010-09-24T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimstolze.nl\/weblog\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2016-06-16T22:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:42:02","slug":"unplugged-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimstolze.nl\/weblog\/2010\/09\/24\/unplugged-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplugged around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my initial <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/2008\/11\/30\/goodbye-internet-goodbye-email\/\">experiment<\/a> in 2008 I get a lot of messages around the world from people who are doing similar projects. These projects vary in size but they have one thing in common. &#8220;What will happen if you unplug?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Last week I spoke at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emerceeday.nl\/over-eday\/summary\">Eday 2010<\/a> and I gave an update on these interesting projects:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeroen van Loon<\/strong><br \/>\nTo graduate without the computer at a digital academy of art? Is that at all possible? Jeroen van Loon started his project: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandigitaalnaaranaloog.nl\/site\/installatie.html\">From Digital to Analogue<\/a>\u201d. He worked for several months on this projects and sent out offline blogposts and created a fantastic visual art piece in the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><br \/>\n(These) technologies have become  so constant in many of our lives we can\u2019t see ourselves without them even as the impact of them on our personal and professional lives \u2014 and even our brains \u2014 is being discovered. The Times is starting a video <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/07\/unplugged-take-the-challenge\/\">project<\/a> asking readers to see what happens when they give up technology. We\u2019re looking for volunteers to unplug temporarily and tell us about their experience. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Zeit Online (german)<\/strong><br \/>\nZwei neue Selbstversuche, offline: Christoph Koch und Alex R\u00fchle beschreiben in ihren B\u00fcchern das Leben ohne Netz und <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/kultur\/2010-08\/ruehle-koch-offline\">digitalen<\/a> Boden. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.slate.com\/media\/42\/1_Thoreau.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slate &#8211; James Sturm<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;I have been offline for almost four weeks now. 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