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Quick Hit: Alt-text Unintended Consequences & Image-generating AI

Quick Hit: Alt-text Unintended Consequences & Image-generating AI

by David | Nov 1, 2023 | Design, Digital Migration, Sip With Caution

  If there were ever an example of why AI needs humans in the loop, well, actually … this isn’t the most compelling. But it’s informative. (H/t Washington Post’s most recent excellent scrollytelling example –...

DDoS Attacks for $2/day: Researching the DarkNet

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...

Internet Security for Creative Professionals – The Basics

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...

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...

Brainwashed User Confesses: “I Was a Human Bot-net for Klout”

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...

Gaming Twitter Follower Counts Makes You a Dick

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...
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