“It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Internet culture seems to want to promote two values that, when combined, cannot help but produce some mischief. How much mischief remains to be seen, but the values to which I refer are anonymity and the wisdom of crowds (a ...
Okay, it’s not often (see never), you’ll find me quoting Julian Assange other than with an inebriated smirk. Although erudite, I think of the man as kind of a digital-age Abbie Hoffman whose primary cause is to increase the relative importance of himself. And we haven’t heard much from Assange lately, holed up as he is in the Ecuadoran Embassy ...
IOM Webcast – A Conversation with Dan Goodman of Believe Entertainment Group from David Newhoff on Vimeo. There’s no question that digital technologies have fostered tremendous opportunity for any content creator with a dream and the passion to pursue it; but these technologies have also created a dynamic, even volatile, market with forces both great and small competing for ad ...
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. US News | Weird News | More ABC News Videos This ABC News Segment asks a question others have asked before: Is social media making people depressed? What are your thoughts or experiences? Or just send suggested lyrics for the “Facebook Blues.” ...
“Speaking of shotguns,” a Chilean idom I learned from an old school friend to describe an abrupt change of subject, I came across this article from NBC News about a new report on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, which covers issues to do with serious cyber-espionage threatening both national security and economic interests of the United States. Apparently, the report raises the ...
