Category: The Internet & Media
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Au Revoir, Facebook.
Posted in: The Internet & MediaI’ve deactivated it for time periods before, but going full monty this time. Over the past few months I’ve pretty much jumped off all the social medias, including the Plus here, but have decided to gradually come back to some, in a more curated fashion. Found overall that spending less time in front of screens…
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Jacked
Another post I’d bookmarked quite some time ago to read and only recently got around to. Lots of information here on how apps and UI are effecting our day-to-day practices. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds Tons of good take-aways – one for me is installing the Moment app to see how much time I spend…
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Poets of Instagram
I’ve really grown to love Instagram as a social media platform, it’s become one of my favourite places to visit online. It’s currently the only social media app I have on my phone. I enjoy the nature of it – the fact that it’s primarily visual. I’m pretty selective with who I follow and for…
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Numbers are Just Numbers
Posted in: The Internet & MediaA great article from TechDirt that popped up in my feed recently: “…internet traffic is half-fake and everyone’s known it for years, but there’s no incentive to actually acknowledge it.” Many of my clients come to me, worried about their website, SEO and page views. The Web wants you to believe that the Web is…
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Don’t Quit Social Media, Put it to Work Instead
Posted in: The Internet & MediaAn interesting article here in the New York Times pointed out to me by a friend, written as a counterpoint to the article I mentioned in my last post: Don’t Quit Social Media, Put It to Work for your Career Instead “Cultivating your social media brand is a fundamentally passive approach to professional advancement.” “There…
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Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.
Posted in: The Internet & MediaQuit social media. Your career may depend on it. Interesting opinion piece from the New York Times shared with me via email by a friend. The email share to a group fostered some discussion, here were a few words I contributed. I fluctuate back and forth with regard to the ‘ability to concentrate’ issue. I’ve…