Misinformation, both unintentional and intentional (usually called disinformation), is one of society’s greatest challenges. It is deployed at scale against whole nations. This big misinformation is only made possible by the daily accumulation of thousands of bits of small misinformation. Let’s look at a case study. In the United Kingdom, motoring laws were recently updated […]
Graffiti. It’s everywhere, right. A sign of rebellious youth, appreciated by some and hated by others. If you drew a Venn diagram of disaffected music culture and graffiti appreciation, there would be a huge overlap. Except, what is this strange new category of graffiti applauders? It’s the selective recognition of re-classification of only certain artists […]
As the years go by, fewer of us will remember this; so it’s time to write it down so it can at least be remembered. Perhaps even recovered. There used to be something called a service industry, which was where people interacted with each other around some kind of transaction. As part of this, you […]
Cookie policies, or data collection and processing consent, is not the most attention-grabbing subject. In fact, the corporations who profit by invading your privacy depending on you yawning, stretching, and scrolling past. But, whether you are an accept-all-er or a manage-and-blocker, your experience of The Web is decaying while they suck up your data and […]
It is becoming increasingly common for art to be crowd-funded. Whether it is bands crowd-funding an album release on Kickstarter or writers crowd-funding their next book project on Unbound; the novelty factor of crowd-funding has now given way to a feeling of the commonplace. In many cases, this has been a highly positive experience. We […]