The BBC is hardly the first organization this has happened to, but you’d like to think news orgs who hold themselves out to be reputable would do better. “The trouble that the BBC got itself into on Wednesday morning, when both online and on air it referred to tweets from a parody Zanu PF account,…
One of the complaints that many people have had about Twitter and Facebook’s efforts to minimize the use of their platforms for illegal, or even just overly rude, behavior is that once they started down that path, the demands for them to add one more thing to focus on would never end. I was reminded…
I was reading this article the other day: Top 5 FAQ on Using Technology in Court Now, originally, I was just going to share the article on Twitter because it’s pretty good all the way around, but then I got to the fifth one: Oculus Rift: Coming to a Courtroom Near You? Using virtual reality…
It doesn’t matter what Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc, say about what their goals are, they are, and have always been, about getting us to stay on the site and see advertising. He explained that when Facebook was being developed the objective was: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as…
Sadly, this is true, the algorithms are programmed to give us more of what we want, and we are the ones sharing this crap. But while Russian meddling is a serious problem, the current sentiment toward Silicon Valley borders on scapegoating. Facebook and Twitter are just a mirror, reflecting us. They reveal a society that…
Actually, what we’re seeing more and more is that tech companies are moving forward with amazing stuff, but not really thinking about the consequences of it being misused. Take, for example, this BBC segment about Adobe. In it, the narrator points out that the new technology Adobe is coming up with could easily be used…