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Solutions to Fake News 1: Deny Lie Merchants Access to Premium Ad Revenue

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,...

Lesson from Reddit and the Boston Bombing — Don’t Stop Experimenting with Crowdsourcing

by David | Apr 22, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs, Conspiracy Theories

Is every crowdsourced “let’s catch the Bad Guys” effort inherently doomed to wind up as a witch hunt? For a while last week, as we were all caught up in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, I was cheered up a bit by the efforts of Reddit and...

A Social Media Milestone: A Crowdsourced State of the Union Address?

by David | Jan 24, 2012 | Amusing Nonsense, Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media

The Teleprompter is Us Tonight’s State of the Union address is being billed as “the most interactive political act ever.” Well, other than the crowdsourcing that brought people to the guillotine during the French Revolution. Although, if you read...

“Filter Bubbles” and the Raison d’Etre for This Here Blog

by David | Dec 15, 2011 | Conspiracy Theories, Digital Migration

Eli Pariser’s TED talk on the dangers of allowing someone else to choose what you see/hear/feel If I were a weaker man, I’d just fold up my tent and move on. However, upon closer inspection, I find myself saying “Yahbut …” a lot...

Cookie Abuse: Absurd Expiration Dates & How to Fix This

by David | Mar 22, 2011 | Conspiracy Theories, Digital Migration

Doop-de-doop, just adjusting the settings on Safari so’s it doesn’t keep opening up a new window every time I click a link. It’s one of the default settings in Safari that I really deplore. Maybe this made sense back when Safari first came out, and...
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