by David | May 13, 2023 | Blogging, Blogs
Dooce Was Brave. Funny. Self-lacerating. Self-aware. Bubbly. Withdrawn. An early pioneer of the “MommyBlogger” phenomenon. And now: dead. Far too soon. Many years ago, before the rise of “micro-blogging” platforms basically sucked all the...
by David | Jul 18, 2017 | Blogging, Blogs, Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media
No TOR, but Rule 66 instead I’ve been in Yangon for more than two weeks now, and I’m starting to run into the outer edges of what is allowed here on the internet. First, Netflix and Apple Music work here. So I’m able to (pretty much) update the apps...
by David | Jun 18, 2017 | Blogging, Sip With Caution
Hackers hire out their botnets for DDoS attacks for as little as $2/day I’ve been working on a series of articles on the threats to activists, independent journalists and innocent bystanders targeted by trolls that lurk on the web. This has led me to some of the...
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...
by David | Apr 22, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs, Conspiracy Theories
Is every crowdsourced “let’s catch the Bad Guys” effort inherently doomed to wind up as a witch hunt? For a while last week, as we were all caught up in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, I was cheered up a bit by the efforts of Reddit and...
by David | Mar 7, 2013 | Blogging, Digital Migration, new media
OK, this is really derivative, but I’m so impressed with the insight in this list that I’m shamelessly repeating it here. Go to BoingBoing. Click on the ads. Give them some money. They are good. I like BoingBoing. (Please, no DMCA notice for this…)...
