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The UX of Decent Online Discussions: Twitter’s New Troll-Killing Algo

by David | Feb 20, 2017 | Blogging, Sip With Caution

Twitter is rolling out three new tools to crack down on trolls, spam & abuse Meanwhile, there’s also “Project Coral” – backed by NY Times, Washington Post and Mozilla – rolling out Talk and Ask, aimed at making comment threads a way...

Guccifer hacker is back; claims not to be Russian

by David | Jan 16, 2017 | Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media, Ukraine

Guccifer hacker – the one who leaked DNC emails – taunts US government I guess this is the world we live in now. With increasing attention being paid to the way that hacks of formerly secure and private information is destablilizing governments around the...

Solutions to Fake News 1: Deny Lie Merchants Access to Premium Ad Revenue

by David | Dec 1, 2016 | adsense clickfraud, advertising, Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Politics & New Media

Is a market-based solution the best way to solve the fake news problem? There’s been a sudden realization outside the cozy confines of digital business model nerds, that the open nature of the web has allowed an entire class of scammers to establish themselves,...

12 Steps to Media Sobriety: the Storify is the First Step (sorta)

by David | Oct 19, 2016 | journalism, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Politics & New Media

OK, this is going to need a bit more work to turn into something that rivals the Cluetrain Manifesto, but there is definitely something here. (Photo below added because so many Chrome users are seeing only blanks on this page, and you should know at least what...

Venezuelan currency – are any of these bills still used?

by David | Oct 18, 2016 | Digital Migration

While rummaging around the various souvenirs and mementoes from all our travels, I ran across these:  With the inflation rate running in the near-four-figure range (the way it did in ’88 when I was an overwhelmed editor there), I wonder if there is even a...
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