Category: The Internet & Media
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The Message in the Medium
Just finished reading The Medium and the Message by Marshall McLuhan. A few sections struck me in particular: Moderator: What do you suggest as alternatives that we offer instead of the search for identity through violence? McLuhan: Dialogue. The alternative to violence is dialogue, which is a kind of encounter interface with others, people and…
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Joe Rogan Sells to Spotify
Posted in: The Internet & MediaPodcaster Joe Rogan has sold his immensely popular podcast to Spotify: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/24/spotify-podcast-deal-the-joe-rogan-experience From the article: “By requiring Rogan’s listeners to use the Spotify app to tune in, the company gains far deeper data about who, when and where their audiences are; that, in turn, can be fed through to advertisers, who are more likely to…
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Facebook Lets You See All the Data Collected on You
Posted in: The Internet & MediaFacebook has launched a new tool to let you see all the data that’s been collected on you both on – and interestingly enough – off the platform. Facebook knows what you’re doing on other sites and in real life. This tool lets you see what it knows about you. I haven’t had a personal…
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Drowning in Oceans of Data
Gerry McGovern presents us with some facts to ponder regarding all this data we’re constantly accruing. He compares the amount of data we’re currently amassing to what its equivalent would be as paper in his post Data Expands to Fill the Space Available. I’ll cut right to the spoiler: Let’s say an average tree produces…
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The Light Phone Experiment That Wasn’t
So if you’ve been paying attention to my posts at all, you’ll know that I was planning on running an experiment based around using a Light Phone 2 provided by a buddy of mine with the intention of seeing what it was like to be ‘smartphoneless’ for some given period of time. Well, that idea…
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Really, It’s OK to Do Nothing Sometimes
The latest episode of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human podcast is pretty good. The guest, Tiffany Shlain, has written about about unplugging from screens one day a week in a practice that is sort of a modern day throwback to the notion of a weekly ‘sabbath’ or ‘Shabbat’. Some really interesting discussion ensues. https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-139-tiffany-shlain-unplugging-one-day-a-week-tribute-to-paul-krassner They talk…