This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Linked – Why It’s Virtually Impossible to Moderate Social Media Sites
I’m sure at some point, Elon Musk thought for sure that he could buy Twitter and do a better job of content moderation. I’m sure most of us have had a similar thought. We just didn’t have $44 billion lying around.
He did, and now he gets to realize something the rest of us should know by now. There’s no easy way to do it.
Linked – Email and Calendar Data Are Helping Firms Understand How Employees Work
This is interesting to me, because it is almost exactly one of the examples I used to use in training to talk about analytical tools. “One of the key enablers is the analysis of email traffic and calendar metadata. This tells us a lot about who is talking to whom, in what departments, what meetings…
Linked – Dictate – Speech Recognition for PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
This seems interesting, especially for Outlook. Now, if they could just make a Mac version and a mobile version. But hey, if you’re an Office user on Windows, a free tool to dictate quick emails might be useful to you. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/06/dictate-speech-recognition-for.html Image by JeepersMedia Follow these topics: Links, Microsoft, Tech
Linked – Salon to ad blockers: Can we use your browser to mine cryptocurrency?
Can’t say that I’ve read anything on Salon in years, but this is an interesting response to ad-blocking, which is not going away: “Salon.com has a new, cryptocurrency-driven strategy for making money when readers block ads. If you want to read Salon without seeing ads, you can do so—as long as you let the website…
