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 | May 1, 2017 | Conspiracy Theories, Digital Migration, Sip With Caution
Hackers want in. Don’t make it easy for them. With all the controversies swirling around hacked emails and cyber-threats, I was asked to come in to USC-Annenberg, and speak to the students about what they need to know about security. Basically, I had to come in...
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 | Feb 2, 2016 | Digital Migration, New Marketing, Sip With Caution
Industry-leader social management tool Hootsuite “deprecates” Klout – but who’s next? Klout, you were mean to us and made us like it. You made us feel inadequate, and spend far too many hours indulging in unnatural behaviors to please your...
by David | Mar 4, 2013 | Blogging, Lemmings, Sip With Caution
The “Follow/Unfollow Dance” builds your lists … but to what end? Social media whiz & Cheesehead Homie Erik Johnson writes powerfully about his experience with one of his intellectual idols. Viz: Every school had one. The kid who pretended to be...
by David | Dec 19, 2012 | Sip With Caution
LazyTruth is a Chrome extension for Gmail that purports to give you context for B.S. spam & chain e-mails Verdict: Sip With Caution One of the growing problems on the internet is the inability of many users to go beyond knee-jerk analysis of the information...
