Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It. Web Publication: New York Times, by Tim Wu Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia University, has done a good job of looking into the heart of Facebook and declared it rotten to the core. I don’t disagree. While Facebook proclaims the lofty goal of connecting the world, a feeling I […]
Facebook Against The Wall
To stay or to go that is the question. A lot of people are either thinking about going or pulling the plug. A lot more are simply laying low and wondering if Facebook is as bad as the news stories make them out to be, particularly when it comes to flaunting the data to every […]
TIR 3/20/18: ‘What’s genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump’
What’s genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump Web Publication: The Hill, by Ben Shapiro Cambridge Analytica is a hot topic right now. In trending news the past few days, the fallout from this companies’ use of Facebook is having a big impact in the political world and directly at Facebook. Mark […]
The Information Age In Reverse, Part 1
Today, I ran across this article featuring the thoughts of Tim Berners-Lee, the guy that really did “invent the Internet” as we know it. The article is Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent ‘weaponized’ web. The gist of it is that the big players now dominating the web have grown so large […]
Part 2, Guns
In my prior essay, ‘Shootings’, I suggested that there is a way forward that would require both polar opposite sides of the gun debate to put everything on the table. “To the left, it is all about guns. To the right, it is all keeping the guns.” No one should be holding their breath. Suggesting […]