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Tracking tech trends and how the internet is changing our lives.
May 31, 2019
Big Tech: It's Time to Break Up Facebook
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Every now and then an article in The Week comes along that feeds my passion for Internet history and ultimately shakes me to the core. And a...
April 30, 2019
YouTube's Porn & Conspiracy Problems: Fix Your Recommendation Engine
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YouTube was under fire again in early March, when a video blogger named Matt Watson detailed how pedophiles can enter a “wormhole” of YouTub...
April 16, 2019
Big Tech Scruples: Why Did Facebook Executives have to be so Ruthless?
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Facebook has weathered its share of scandals lately but this item didn't get much coverage and it really got my goat. At the end of 2018...
April 2, 2019
Hey Amazon :( If Coastal Elite Turn On You, Go Where You're Needed
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Amazon walked away from New York City due to the public outcry over the $2 billion tax incentives. Amazon, with the rest of Big Tech , is fa...
March 26, 2019
Working at Google is Not The Dream It’s Supposed To Be
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Google has a two-tier workforce, with half of the 170,000 people who work for Google classified as temporary or contract workers, and perman...
March 19, 2019
Still Like Netflix Knowing Their Employees Work in Constant Fear?
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Who wants to work at a place where the culture can be ruthless and demoralizing? How about brutal honesty, ritual humiliation, insider lingo...
March 3, 2019
Knowledge Workers: It's Time to Embrace Working Remotely
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Employees actually hate open offices, everyone knows that. But's it now been scientifically proven that open offices are doing the oppos...
February 6, 2019
Why the Gig Economy can be an Online Hell for Workers
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Karl Marx would not be surprised by the gig economy, said Leonid Bershidsky in Bloomberg.com. Marx’s proletariat was made up of laborers w...
January 21, 2019
Congress Doesn't Get Big Tech and Senators Don’t Use E-mail. This Bothers Me.
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From Senator Chuck Schumer to Senator Lindsey Graham, many of our elected officials continue to brag about not using email. That's conce...
December 20, 2018
Google, Facebook, and Amazon: A Second Gilded Age of New Monopolies
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How dominant are Google, Facebook, and Amazon you ask? According to a briefing in my favorite magazine The Week, they are as dominant as S...
November 26, 2018
Brain Hacking – Top Internet Term of 2018: Big Tech Gets Us Addicted
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Each year I identify the Top Internet Jargon of the Year, the Top Internet Acronym of the Year, the worthy terms that made the Top 10 List, ...
November 16, 2018
DatingNews.com: Get "NSFW" to Decode Flirtatious Slang for Sexty Singles
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My friends at DatingNews.com crafted an amazing write-up about the new holiday books, check it out... special thanks to Hayley Matthews...
November 15, 2018
Whether They’re Naughty or Nice, NetLingo has Your Holiday Gifts Covered
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NetLingo releases two New Internet Books specially for the Holiday Season: "Texting Terms" & "NSFW: The Little Black ...
November 13, 2018
Sex Sells. Let’s A/B Test that Puppy and See Who Bites
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Now that the mid-terms are over let's switch it up and have some fun! I did one silly little video about “prairie dogging” on YouTube a...
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