Twitter users: “Get rid of the abuse and Nazis”.
Twitter: “We’re killing the Mac app.”
Twitter users: “…”
Nice example of a mag using digital to boost print.
Fancy a little AR in your news?
It’s not just journalism, politics has a Facebook problem, too.
A Valentine’s fable of love, heartache and betrayal, more dramatic than anything on screen: Facebook never loved journalism. It’s time to break up
Anyone shocked by how Facebook is hanging the news industry out to dry is probably forgetting that its founder once called his users dumb fucks, because of how much free data they were giving him.
Our long international nightmare of Emoji Frgmentation might be over…
6 years ago, I actually proposed this exact idea in an interview. And they mocked it. If nothing else, it told me I didn’t want to work for that company… How 2,000+ random coffee dates changed our company culture
It's not our attention that's being monetised, it's our data
The Centre for Human Technology doesn’t want your attention:
What the Center identifies as the ‘monetization of attention’ is, actually, the extraction of personal data. (Curiously, they do not use the phrase ‘big data’, or ‘your personal data’ anywhere in their website text.) This attention (or, personal data) is extracted from our digital and analog behavior and then is used to profile and target us to sell us lies, misinformation, or worsen our depression by showing us advertising for make-up.