I guess because I was on vacation I sort of missed the big hullabaloo about Google moving to require YouTube users to sign on with a Google+ profile in order to leave comments. Either that or my mental filter saw that as non-news. I mean, it has been pretty obvious that there simply isn’t a…
NPR has a story this morning talking about Facebook’s facial recognition tools and the potential risk to our privacy that comes along with it. One of the things I like about this story is the explanation of modeling, and how without a model, facial scanning doesn’t really work. It’s comparable to the conversations I’ve had…
For everything that Google is, and let’s face it, the word Google is pretty much the same type of verb that Xerox became, when we need to find something online we don’t search for it, we Google it, the company is in the business of selling advertising. As the market for online advertising continues to…
I posted this status to the Facebook page for my child abuse site today. It’s a site with over 1,000 fans, yet not one of those newsfeeds showed a recent post to the page. I posted a link here about 4 hours ago, and according to Facebook analytics, exactly no one was shown that post…
If you’ve been paying attention, I went on a quest back at the beginning of the year to check out the Tumblr blogging platform and see what the big deal is about it. I started out with writing a sports blog, just something for fun and giggles. As I got that off the ground, I…
As you may know, I decided to go with the upstart The Old Reader as my Google Reader replacement when Google shut it down. It had everything that I had enjoyed from Google Reader, even if it wasn’t backed by a humongous infrastructure in the same way that Google Reader was. I can see now…