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Experimental VR Art Project at Google’s Venice HQ
Depending upon your tolerance for the sight of people wearing virtual reality helmets all craning their necks and looking about themselves, this video is either really charming or really alarming. https://youtu.be/rkYhBwLmf3E Thanks to Kluge interactive for the invite...
The UX of Decent Online Discussions: Twitter’s New Troll-Killing Algo
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 to connect with an audience -...
Guccifer hacker is back; claims not to be Russian
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 world, the...
Solutions to Fake News 1: Deny Lie Merchants Access to Premium Ad Revenue
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, grow,...
12 Steps to Media Sobriety: the Storify is the First Step (sorta)
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 you're...
Venezuelan currency – are any of these bills still used?
While rummaging around the various souvenirs and mementoes from all our travels, I ran across these: With the inflation rate running in the near-four-figure range (the way it did in '88 when I was an overwhelmed editor there), I wonder if there is even a use for...