Social media? Bob needs a social mediaTOR
Okay, I’m back, still without cataract surgery but I have the fonts cranked-up on this notebook and my one working eye is still, well, working so I am, too. My next column will be about last week’s...
View ArticleWhat’s Real about Fake News
I’m here nominally to address the problem of what’s being called Fake News. At its core this is as labeled — news that is fake; news that isn’t news; deceptive content intended not to inform or...
View ArticlePresident Trump thinks he can shut down WeChat: It won’t work
Forty-five days from now, we’re told, President Trump will shut down TikTok and WeChat. TikTok, maybe, but WeChat? Impossible. Everything Donald Trump understands about the Internet could fit in a...
View Article2021 Prediction #1: Trump will do fine without Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
I’m no Trumper. This prediction has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with how social media actually works. Following the U.S. Capitol riot of January 6th, President Trump was bumped...
View Article2021 Prediction #6: COVID-19, Clubhouse, and the Great High School Reset
To this point in my tech predictions for 2021 I have ignored COVID-19, which we all do at our peril. Now that we know the pandemic is real, that it won’t just disappear, and that half a million people...
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