- Burning Down The HouseIf you’re going to breakup with Twitter, it’s not enough to close your account. You’ve got to figure out how to get others to consider it too.
- Burning Down The HouseIf you’re going to breakup with Twitter, it’s not enough to close your account. You’ve got to figure out how to get others to consider it too.
- 22A recollection of 9/11 22 years later and a meditation on why it’s important to keep digital content online as a record.
- AI Copyright : It’s complicatedWhen it comes to AI copyright, there are many factors to consider. Creators, users, and companies are all jostling for position.
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Technology
- The Generative AI Doom LoopCan Generative AI’s dependency on the web as primary source survive?
- “The Vision Thing”The Apple Vision Pro unveiled this week is not a product for now. It’s a vision of the future based on where the recent past has been.
- Gradually, Then SuddenlyThe rise of Mastodon and ActivityPub (collectively known as the Fediverse) represent a new age of social media
- Are We Breaking the Internet?Whether it is the recent S3 outage or the recent cloudflare security bug, we’re learning about the dangers of over-centralization.

Business
- AI Copyright : It’s complicatedWhen it comes to AI copyright, there are many factors to consider. Creators, users, and companies are all jostling for position.
- Data Capture in the New Social Media AgeHow aggressive is Instagram Threads in terms of data gathering, compared to other social media networks? The answer may surprise you.
- Internet 4.0: The Ambient Internet is HereWith Internet 4.0, the Internet disappears in the background and becomes an Ambient Internet. Are you ready for it?
- Amazon’s Quest to Become the Retail Operating SystemAmazon is on a quest to build THE retail operating system, powering every aspects of the retail world in the future.

Media
- Gradually, Then SuddenlyThe rise of Mastodon and ActivityPub (collectively known as the Fediverse) represent a new age of social media
- The Incumbent ChallengeYou can’t lead an insurgency from the top
- Streaming movie hits – 2013 editionWhat 2013 box office movies can you legally stream in 2014?
- Cable Not TVThe battle over cable acquisition is about the next big internet providers

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Politics
- An American TragedyThe attack on the US Capitol, which I’m sure will be known as January 6, represent America losing its moral leadership.
- The New WarTwo camps are forming in the world: on one side, networked people who believe in facts; on the other, individualists who believe in conspiracies.
- A Time for HopeThe Notre Dame fire presents all of us with an opportunity to change course and become much more hopeful about the future.
- 2019 PredictionsStarting into the crystal ball – 2019 edition: Political instability, privacy erosion, chatbots, Fornite, Media rebalancing.

Society
- Beware the AI HypeTo believe AI will destroy humanity, you must first believe the AI Hype presented by its proponents. Here’s why you don’t need to worry yet.
- Alone TogetherIn the Extended Reality world, two camps are forming: one that is focused on social use, the other focused on personal worlds.
- Today’s Tech, Tomorrow’s WorldThe world of tomorrow looks different but the technology to make it a reality is already widely available.
- We The PeopleWorld War II defeated Nazis. What happened in Charlottesville was Un-American and should be condemned by any American patriot.

Personal
- 22A recollection of 9/11 22 years later and a meditation on why it’s important to keep digital content online as a record.
- 21September 11, 21 years later. Reflection on trauma from a survivor of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
- 20Reflections on 9/11, 20 years later. For many, it’s gone but for those of us who were there, the gap it left is still present.
- 19Reflecting on 9/11, 19 years later. This year, COVID reminds us of the push/pull of history and puts the death count of 9/11 in perspective.