{"id":240,"date":"2007-08-31T22:08:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/31\/bit-literacy-productivity-in-the-age-of-information-and-e-mail-overload-review\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T16:05:04","slug":"bit-literacy-productivity-in-the-age-of-information-and-e-mail-overload-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/31\/bit-literacy-productivity-in-the-age-of-information-and-e-mail-overload-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Bit Literacy Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitliteracy.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/img\/2007\/bit-literacy.gif\" width=\"175\" height=\"262\" alt=\"Bit Literacy\" \/><\/a> User Experience Lord, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodexperience.com\/about\/mark.php\">Mark Hurst<\/a> wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/bitliteracy.com\/\">Bit Literacy<\/a>, possibly the second most valuable book anyone who wants to catch-up with <cite>this computer thing<\/cite> should read and learn. Right after the <cite>Computers for Dummies<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>In his book, Mark Hurst gives you easy to follow how-to for the most common everyday scenarios as well as the best practice tips for maintaining the digital discipline on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, a bit-literate user is more productive. By <cite>letting the bits go<\/cite>, information overload can be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Probably, the most significant chapter is <cite>Other Essentials<\/cite>, where the author reveals the inevitable truth \u2013 <em>bit literacy<\/em> is going to be the digital age standard. Sooner than anyone expects.<\/p>\n<p>I only wish this book was shipped as a part of an operating system installation guide when I bought the first computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essential book for anybody who ever grabbed a mouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,8],"tags":[39,43,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}