I was listening to Seth Godin’s latest Akimbo podcast, where he talks about Google, and how Google started out once with a very simple mission. Index all the information on the web and build a search engine that connects people and the information they are searching for. But, once they starting selling advertising they couldn’t…
Recently, the Baton Rouge traffic and safety folks decided to test the traffic in our neighborhood, because they had been getting a lot of complaints about people entering the neighborhood. It was fairly obvious when their monitoring began, because there were black monitoring strips across the road. As you might have guessed, after a few…
This article pulls together some of what we’ve seen coming out from the research, but I think it’ important to keep in mind as we look at Twitter, or talk about Twitter: “Tweets have become a routine part of the national conversation in the U.S. They are discussed on shows ranging from network newscasts to…
The recent flap about the FaceApp “old age” filter is somewhat instructive. As soon as it started going viral, there were scary media reports about how the company was stealing all of your photos, and storing them, and possibly “owning your face”. Really? Here the thing about every one of the articles that I saw….
One of the things that I am constantly amazed by, is how many people don’t actively get news or any information. It seems as if social media has not only made us all slightly narcissistic, but it’s also made us fairly lazy as well. We no longer go read the news from a site that…
First off, good. Twitter needs to make the lists feature as easy as possible for everyone to use. Secondly, use Tweetdeck. Seriously. From the article: As noted, Twitter lists have long been seen as an underrated, underused option, with many people using TweetDeck instead to easily see various listings and stay up to date. I…