Simple question: When misinformation is spreading on social media – can it be stopped? Simple answer: No. As Churchill (edit: apocryphally) said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” But, if you catch it early enough, you can potentially limit the damage. Along with […]
In the past few days two people who were not following me sent me direct messages (DM) on Twitter. Neither of us realized the asymmetrical nature of our “relationship” until I had to actually e-mail (oh the horror) them back to suggest they follow me so I could reply. It is a small annoyance – […]
My copy of Wired arrived in the mail today. Page 040 Jargon Watch: “Cybercase v. To scope out a joint using geotagged data written into digital photos posted online. By browsing images of luxury goods on sites like Flickr or craigslist, thieves can often glean the exact location of the loot and then plot a […]
What is it about new toys? My flight back from Las Vegas this afternoon (Southwest 1159) was on one of the airline’s few planes that have WiFi hotspots. Apparently they are still testing out the system and it was free. So – having a new iPhone, 5.5 hours of flight time and free Wifi – […]
I sent a note out over Twitter earlier today trying to gather some additional responses to a Web Tools Survey I am working on: Doing a survey of news Web sites – what open-source and free tools and services do you use: http://bit.ly/oju #journ Typical enough – but what was interesting was watching the traffic […]