social media

I've seen wildly varying predictions on the projected longevity of Twitter, and not a few about this website as well. Which one will last longest as something recognizably similar to the original concept?

I have no idea if this belongs in Politics, Social Issues, Technology, or humor. The Trump team has launched a social media app, named GETTR. Its mission statement? From the rumors it's pretty much just twitter v2.0, but kind of looks like an old geocities site, and twitter had a baby. I...

Today, Donald Trump issued an executive order regarding "censorship" on social media. You can read the order here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/ It's an interesting order. The core issue is that once upon a time, in a section of...

Ah the free market. The invisible hand of which can not steer one wrong. Let us all gather round the Ayn Rand statue and give a blessing of thanks to the concept that private industry makes the best decisions always. Just ask the people of Bhopal or Love Canal...or Cardin, Oklahoma...umm...

Just for fun, I visited the Facebook pages of various presidential candidates to see how many of my Facebook buddies publicly like them. Here are my results. I'm including the names of some of candidates who have dropped out. Some of the candidates have two official pages. I ordered the...

I tried this evening based soley on what's available from my JREF profile - Octavo, Cape Town. I thought I was doing well until a search on one of the social media sites outed pretty convincingly. It probably shouldn't surprise me. I have. more and more, as I started to consume social media...

I am not a Face-book user, but I do use the slightly more serious LinkedIn. I have noticed an interesting effect: When I get a new connection, I usually run through that person's connection list to see if there is anybody I know or would otherwise want to link to. It seems a lot of people do...