Or “Why are Daily Mile‘s default avatars male?” This is a pretty common — and I would guess, frequently wrong — assumption on the part of web site user interface designers. No, your users won’t all be male. Yes, many women and genderqueer people will be annoyed that you made such an assumption. No, “But [...]
[3 Jan 2011]
The guide is simply a review of privacy policies, to the extent we’ve been able to find them, plus additional information we received directly from Adobe and the Internet Archive. We haven’t been able to do independent testing to verify how these e-book providers work in practice. Also, in discussing whether individuals are linked to [...]
[7 Dec 2010]
One of the best outcomes from November’s Wave Protocol Summit was a proposal for Wave to enter the Apache Software Foundation’s incubator program. Apache has a fantastic reputation for fostering healthy open source communities that create great software. Last week, that proposal was accepted, and we’re spinning up the project infrastructure so that the community [...]
[7 Dec 2010]
WARNING: The videos below contain a lot of profanity. It seems the Baracka Flocka Flames controversy has heated up since the October 26 publication of Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up Issues in the New York Times (video below; article requires log-in). America’s foremost old cranky black man, Stanley Crouch, had nothing [...]
[31 Oct 2010]
Those guys make money because they’re saying something that Fortune 500 companies and major investment banks like to hear. It’s ad copy about how Social Media empowers the little guy, and it’s simply not true. The big winners are the aggregators, the central nodes in the network, and those are all owned by the same [...]
[5 Aug 2010]
One reaction is to diversify: Hotmail instead of Gmail, MapQuest instead of Google Maps, AOL Instant Messenger instead of Google Chat ’ though that would mean losing the accumulated benefits of linked services. Another reasonable response is to focus efforts on improving our (new) media literacy so that we’re more mindful of how much even [...]
[18 Feb 2010]
From Saudi women revel in online lives on GlobalPost: In a country where about one-third of the population regularly goes online, the internet gives women “a place to vent out our frustrations and our dreams,“ said Reem Asaad, 37, a professor of banking and finance in the Saudi port city of Jeddah who blogs at [...]
[4 Feb 2010]
From Social Times, an interview with Lynne d. Johnson, Senior Vice President at the Advertising Research Foundation and a beloved member of my blog family. The interview begins with a look back at Johnson’s career and ends with some of her insights about social media marketing. For example: Even more than social media, digital content [...]
[19 Nov 2009]
The CBC’s Spark podcast is one of my regular listens. One recent episode featured an interview with Linda Stone, a longtime tech thought leader. She coined the term continuous partial attention, to describe our new way of multi-tasking and always-on communications. Now Stone has coined a new phrase: e-mail apnea. Stone first described e-mail apnea [...]
[8 Nov 2009]
I know this post is a bit disjointed. I wrote it in a bit of a rush this morning because I wanted to put it out there while I felt inspired to do it. I learned this lesson the hard way. I blogged about my breakup that started in February 2007, here, on Vox, and [...]
[8 Sep 2008]