Time is littered with epochs that were far more alarming and far less hopeful than our own.
Think times are bad? Here’s some perspective
Why I’m Leaving Facebook—And the Reason May Surprise You
If you clicked on this because of that dumb teaser headline, that’s why I’m leaving Facebook. It’s not totally because the privacy concerns. Yes, they are annoying, particularly when the company keeps nibbling away at both its promises and your ability to choose what to make public. When we signed up for social media, we all agreed to… Read more »
Signs that your favorite website is a post mill
Post mills can undermine the Fourth Estate, allow marketing and PR departments to manipulate our media as their mouthpiece, and leave the watchdogs sleeping. An entire generation of people is growing up without an understanding that the people who bring them their news have hastily recycled it, without checking how it got to them.
Seven things Facebook and Google get wrong about you
Most of the major sites we use now purport to be able to “customize” what they show you based on what you’ve looked at before. But this worrying fascination is built on some logical lapses about who we are and what our behavior really exposes about ourselves.
Facebook’s gift to society: Passive affection
There may be few things more annoying than reading the results of yet another study in the press. The only thing more dispiriting, I guess, would be one more self-serving article about Twitter. Enough already! Yet here’s one that dares to be exponentially more pretentious by being both at once. Don’t worry. I’ll boil it… Read more »
My Facebook “fan” page
In case you didn’t know, I also have a “fan” page on Facebook, where my videos, posts, and general blathering are published. If you’re looking for me by name there, you have to search in Pages (not People). I love Cristina Pellerano Jambon for many things, but one of the more recent ones is that… Read more »