April 1, 2018
The New York Times reported today that Amazon and Google are applying for patents to be able to legally listen in to random conversations through your home-based and mobile devices. Coming close on the heels of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytics data breach, this rather darkly adds to the growing unease with the sense that we’re all […]
January 16, 2018
Facebook has changed its algorithm again. The organic reach of pages is being moved to a little area called “Pages Feed” under “Explore”. Plan B for managers of Facebook pages: either use Facebook advertising to continue reaching people’s news feeds or treat your page as a different kind of resource.
July 14, 2017
Richard Vevers switched from an advertising career to saving coral reefs and set up a non-profit organization which “uses the powerful combination of new technology, media, partnerships, and above all creativity to work at a meaningful speed and scale”. When you’re doing good work of any kind, getting the word out amplifies the benefit of what you are doing. Most non-profit organizations and artists would do well to develop a better marketing effort.
January 19, 2015
In the process of experimenting with Twitter, I’ve become a little wary of the culture of “building a twitter following”. Here’s why.
December 23, 2014
I opened my Twitter account in February 2009 not because I was dying to become a Tweeter but because, being a web developer, I needed to understand it. I began by using it as a kind of personal archive of interesting web pages.
