Fake news played a role in the outcome of Brexit and the US election. It is being used as a propaganda tool throughout Europe and promoters of fake news are attempting to influence the French election specifically. It is also being used in an attempt to influence elections in Africa and was recently blamed for a decline in…
Twitter executives are reportedly considering changing Twitter’s 140 character limit to a 10,000 character limit – turning Twitter into a blogging service and feed reader. For me Twitter is the world’s best cocktail party. I can walk in to a room full of people that I have specifically chosen. For me that room includes politicians,…
Currently, people don’t see much of what is posted on Facebook. If you like a page and the owner posts something to that page, roughly 10% of the people who liked the page will ever see it. Not, that is, unless the page owner pays to promote it. YouTube and Google (through AdSense) share revenue…
According to Scientific American it’s the “Greatest invention in human history”, apps that use GPS to help you hide from people, or at least avoid certain people: “The Cloak app, for example, collects location info from Instagram and Foursquare to let you know where your so-called “friends” are—so that you never have to see them.…
In the old days, of old media, consumers options were limited, nothing was customizable or interactive, content producers held all the cards and becoming a content producer required large sums of money. In the 1980s and 90s you could record a few programs to watch later on your VCR, video on demand required a trip…
Last night’s brilliant episode of Community “App Development and Condiments” was a brilliant nod to futuristic sci-fi and a poke in the eye of social media at the same time. A company was beta testing a new app (“MeowMeowBeenz“) on campus. Everyone rated each other and the campus quickly dissolved into the haves vs. the…
The modern main stream media is awash in rumors and fake news. I’ve heard quite a few old media news people refer to blogs and bloggers as ‘parasitic’. The argument goes something like ‘we create the news and they borrow it and rehash it and take traffic away from us’. However, this video from Epipheo…
The modern main stream media is awash in rumors and fake news. I’ve heard quite a few old media news people refer to blogs and bloggers as ‘parasitic’. The argument goes something like ‘we create the news and they borrow it and rehash it and take traffic away from us’. However, this video from Epipheo…
If you are really good at social media, you don’t need to say so in your profile. However the idea of using Twitter or Facebook for a living is appealing to many, that’s the best explanation I can give for the number of people who claim to be Social Media ‘ninjas’, ‘gurus’, ‘experts’, ‘masters’, ‘mavens’,…
If you are really good at social media, you don’t need to say so in your profile. However the idea of using Twitter or Facebook for a living is appealing to many, that’s the best explanation I can give for the number of people who claim to be Social Media ‘ninjas’, ‘gurus’, ‘experts’, ‘masters’, ‘mavens’,…
