Education Technology Is Receiving A Concerted Push
Education Technology Is Always An Exciting Frontier It is not like technology in schools is a new thing – I have after all been following an education technology newsletter for a couple of years now. I remember when there was some kind of deal going on with...
The Conners – Handling PR Problems
Roseanne Blundered, ABC Acted Correctly Sometimes you can be riding the crest of a wave and it seems like you have picked up so much momentum that you are something of an unstoppable force, and then someone drops something on the tracks and the whole damned locomotive...
Juneteenth
America Has Many Great Holidays, Juneteenth Is Amongst Them Today is the celebration of a big day in the annals of American History, but it is unfortunate that not everyone knows about it. It is celebrated by African Americans especially, because it commemorates the...
What Is The Buzzazz Hive?
An Amazing Digital Magazine It is an amazing digital magazine. that is the easy answer, and perhaps all you need, but if you want a little more, read on … The Buzzazz Hive is a digital magazine. It is a place where we look at popular culture and the world at...
Behind The Mac
Where Does the Purpose Behind A Product Drive It And You? I am not sure that I ever really saw a Windows or Microsoft advert that stuck with me. Windows was ubiquitous but never really aspirational or inspirational. I have Windows because it came on the computer I own...
Anthony Bourdain, I’m Sorry I Missed Out
Each Episode Showed Human Resilience And Humanity I am going to make a confession that is going to have anyone who was already in the fan club thinking I am a little bit of an idiot. Until this week I hadn’t actually watched any of Anthony Bourdain’s...
Combating Trolls While Protecting Privacy
Anonymity And Criminality Are Not Intrinsically Connected Should anonymity on the net be done away with? Should lack of anonymity be imposed on people who commit certain offenses? It is something of a minefield that pulls in all kind of laws regarding privacy and...
My 11 Year Faceversary
A Look At What Facebook Does Well The videos they compile out of your own photos and videos for these things generally hit the right mark, unless they excavate a problematic relationship – though thankfully you can edit that out. But after a few instances where...
China Built A Social Media Control Mechanism For Its People
When You Track Yourself For Others, Who’s In Control Of The Data? Use what you have. Want to control the people? Connect them all up and then use them to monitor and regulate each other, reduce the burden on the state. This seems to be working in China. The...
Zuckerberg And Cook And Facebook And Apple
Ethics Are Observable In Action Not Demonstrated In Words Watch how people operate under pressure and you can learn a lot about them. It wasn’t too long ago that Apple ran afoul of the intelligence services, when the FBI, due to an error on their own part, were...
Thinking About Futures
Do People Still Ask What Will The Future Look Like? From what direction will the future come, and in what shape will it arrive? There are a lot of different areas that one might look for some early indications of emergent trends – such as those who work in the...
Digital Wellbeing And Apple
Technology Companies That Consider Their Consumers Wellbeing Will Lead The Way There is a new idea in town, or rather an old idea dressed in new clothes: digital wellbeing. How long do you spend sat in front of your machine? How in control of your digital environment...
For The Man On The Street Or The Expert?
What Viewpoint Should You Be Writing To? Who is your audience? Do you ask that question before you create your content or craft your sales pitch? You may take a subject, and depending on who you are trying to communicate to, the substance may have to be very...
Happy Memorial Day
Every Year This Day Celebrates Those Who Died In Service Of Their Country In England we observed Remembrance Sunday every year as part of our duties in the Cubs and then the Scouts, so it was something that I was aware of from an early age. Every year we would place a...
Compassionate Tech
What Problems Cannot be Solved If Energy And Care Are Applied To Them? Compassionate tech is apparently a big thing in the UK, where the tech sector grew 2.6 times faster than the rest of the UK economy. Private start-ups are using technology to help society’s...
Here Together With Facebook Forever
Public Relations Isn’t About Spin, It’s About Honestly Promoting What You Have Done When you are working on fixing your reputation excuses are perhaps not the best policy, nor is glossing over it. If you can tackle it head on and provide real solutions to...
Drug Free America – Pam Bondi & Keanan Kintzel
Drug Free America Are Helping To Handling The Drug Problem! Drugs are a problem that affect a lot of people, and with the wide-ranging issues caused by the Opioid Epidemic, and the over-prescription of psychiatric drugs, it is not just recreational drugs that are in...
A Shift To Lyft
Lyft Over Uber? Lyft has good customer service, and half of that comes through it being fast and efficient. Uber has no real recourse for riders having issues in the field, other than slow burn emails that are unlikely to get answered in the kind of timeframe you need...
You Should Have An App! We Build Apps!
Apps Are Essential Apps are where it is at. Considering that a growing number of people who are interacting with your website are doing so through their phone, or that more and more people are using apps instead of websites to access the data and services that they...
Horizon Smart Glasses Give Blind Users A Virtual Guide
How Much Are You Helping People With Your Tech? Does your technology help someone? In some basic sense it probably helps in some way, even if its sole purpose is to provide escapism. But when you see something that could possibly change the way that someone lives...
Cat Ears On Your Car Vending Machine
Technology Needs A Sense Of Humor Everything shall be automated. Some people posit this as being a bad thing, and some people celebrate the convenience it represents. A giant car vending machine for me is closer to the kind of future I want – there is humor...
More Mobile Friendly
Mobile friendly websites are the thing. People carry their computers around with them now in their pockets. They want to be able to find data on the go, so it makes sense that your website should be friendly to these devices. People do not want to have work to get the...
Societal Mediation
A Social Media Evolution May Be Underway Social media is just a set of tools that are bolted together and left to grow in the laboratory that is the world. A platform from which something is launched. A filter that mediates communication between people, with some...