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Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Uncovering Ad Fraud at Financial Times: $1.3 Million PER MONTH
Investigation reveals "organized crime" at one paper - how many more are undiscovered? I know that I sound like a broken record on this subject, but for God's sake, it's been 3 years now since pretty much everybody in the digital ad industry acknowledged that there...
Shwedagon Pagoda and Dave by Night
As with so many major cities in Asia, the ancient and the modern exist side-by-side.
Quirks of the Internet in Myanmar
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 on my iPhone and...
Mobile Phone Wizards
I bought a new Sim card from one of the hundreds of tiny shops that line Insein Road here in Rangoon. The guy on the right here wasn't absolute magician with my phone. His fingers moved so fast I could barely see them as he was setting up my phone to work on the...
Just What Is a Digital Native Anyway?
Not to get all existential on your or anything, but it's the difference between "Being" and "Doing" Recently, while putting the finishing touches on a Great Big Important Research Project For A Huge Client, I got into a discussion with Janine Warner, my partner in all...
Whither Digital Advertising, Mid-2017 Edition: NYTimes Take; Analytics to the Rescue!
Are we about to see advertisers "flee to quality"? And would a complete overhaul of digital advertising be good for journalists and netizens who produce honest, high-quality content (and more importantly, bad for Fake News)? Mark Thompson, the CEO of the New York...