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...
Jordan Peele’s Comedy Gold, to Oscar Gold
In 2015, Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele ended their Comedy Central series Key and Peele after five seasons of work and success. In the comedic community that means a lot for any actor. Especially minority actors. After, Jordan Peele has been working on more...
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...
Pinellas Dog Parks
Dog owners in America are becoming more and more protective of their fur babies than ever before. Sometimes helicopter parenting can be seen as a bad thing, but it hard to argue with those big black eyes and wiggly tongues. Florida is a warm state with almost constant...
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...
Sushi Scene in Pinellas
A long time ago, the idea of eating uncooked food made some people curl over. The original sushi in Japan was actually just vinegar rice preserving fish in ships on the sea. Flash forward to 2018 and raw fish, or sushi, has become so “in”, its difficult to imagine a...
Let’s Spread Some Good News
Just Imagine If Everyone Thought About Solutions Rather Than Problems This seems like an unlikely thing to be said in a meeting with any News Editor – that he tells you to go out there and dig up some feel-good stories. Bad News sells, right? That is the old...
The Truth About Google Review Reputation
Google Review Reputation 101 If you have been alive and participating in society to any degree than your have heard of one of the biggest tech companies called Google. It started out as a search engine and has in recent years had it’s hand in most tech advances...