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 | 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...
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,...
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...
by David | Oct 10, 2015 | Politics & New Media, television
So this happened: I got asked to help train a team of 25 bright, ambitious, clever & talented people from Jiangsu Broadcasting. I believe they are headquartered in Nanjing, and they were set loose in Los Angeles for 20 days (missing out on some big & important...
by David | Jun 26, 2015 | Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media, Ukraine
Ukrainians fighting the Kremlin’s propaganda machine release report on what they’ve learned While I’ve been regularly sharing, reposting and ReTweeting the efforts of my friends, colleagues and students in Ukraine over the past year and a half, I...
