can i be the first to report that social media is dead?
Social media is no longer social or media. And that’s deliberate; the battle for attention has morphed the medium into one more like a game. What comes next?
Category Archives: Internet life
engagement’s battleground has shifted to groups
Facebook is serious about building out its Groups platform. Why?
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… 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… 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.