engagement’s battleground has shifted to groups
Facebook is serious about building out its Groups platform. Why?
Category Archives: Internet life
Covid and the Demise of Distance
I lost my brother the other day. Less than a month after losing my aunt, it is starting to feel like carelessness. And to be clear, neither of these deaths were down to Covid-19, at least not directly, and this column isn’t about Covid-19, at least not directly. But as I spent some virtual time alone with my… Read More »
Why Won’t Computers Do What We Want Them To?
(Post updated 2020-07-15 07:37 to include postscript on JK Rowling’s planning technique.) Computers and the software that runs them have long denied us the basic right of dictating to them — not letters and grocery lists, but of what they should actually do for us – most importantly in the first step of thinking: the art of taking… Read More »
The Future of Work Rethought
Freelancing is not the gig economy, nor is it co-working. In fact, it’s the future of how most of us will work.
Why we hate video calls
Good piece in the New Scientist about why we’ve always hated video calls: When another New York Times reporter went to Pittsburgh in mid-1971, however, he found only 33 Picturephones in operation, with just 12 able to dial outside their own buildings. Aside from impracticalities such as cost, it seemed that, against all predictions, no one actually wanted… Read More »