I don’t think I’d go to the trouble of not seeing any retweets, but this does remind us that maybe don’t tweet or retweet something that makes you angry, it’s not really helping anything? “But what if viral content isn’t the best content? Two Wharton professors have found that anger tops the list of shareable…
This theory of learning styles is widely assumed to be true, not just in academia, but when it comes to technology training as well. I remain a skeptic of it, and current research continues to find no truth in it. “Husmann and O’Loughlin don’t pull any punches in their conclusion. Their findings, they write –…
The other day, as I was perusing various news sources, I happened upon back to back articles from Psychology Today. Now at first glimpse these articles might not seem related, but I think they are. Let me start by talking about Facebook though. Way back in his Harvard days, Mark Zuckerberg, the legend holds, started…
This opinion might be a bit overly broad, and is clearly based on anecdotal evidence, but there’s no question this goes on in many workplaces. The philosophy of today’s corporations is simple: get all you can out of employees and pay them as little as possible. If possible hire them on a freelance basis so…
As many of you probably know, Twitter is fighting a losing battle with fake news, trolls, etc. They’ve tried a lot of really stupid things to try and, well, to try and make people be something that we aren’t, but that’s another post. Recently, they’ve started putting some serious limits on accounts, limits that are…
Tim hits the nail on the head here, there’s a very fine line between trying to weed out “fake” information, and outright censorship. “Fake news is apparently everywhere. All over Europe, legislators and officials are trying to regulate content with “fake news” legislation and directives, as though the term could somehow be narrowly-defined enough that…