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Beware the “Words with Friends” scammers
New predators are stalking older women via chat in online games. Here’s how to protect yourself and your family. My mother is nobody’s fool. She is also such a fan of the online Scrabble knockoff...
View ArticleShould you look at your kid’s smartphone? Digital parenting tips #2
(This is the second in a series of practical tips about parenting in the digital age.) My last column described conversations that parents should have before giving a kid that first smartphone. I held...
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Will Twitter decide the 2020 presidential election?
Is Mayor Pete Buttigieg really surging? Is Senator Elizabeth Warren really the new frontrunner? Can any of the Democratic candidates match Trump’s social media presence? Most Americans, regardless of...
View ArticleListen to me on this week’s “Laugh Your Cry Out” podcast!
I’m delighted to share that I’m the guest on this week’s episode of “Laugh Your Cry Out with Joey Dumont,” a podcast about (and I’m quoting here) men’s mental health and masculinity [seen] through the...
View ArticleNFTs, 5G, HUD: Colliding Trends and the Intermediate Future
I’m an NFT skeptic. They seem like digital litter—cybernetic landfill that will clutter the e-commons like plastic bags blowing across a public park. This skepticism is unusual for me. I’m usually an...
View ArticleWhy Facebook is Creepier than Google
A 2/18 article in the Wall Street Journal by Suzanne Vranica, Patience Haggin, and Salvador Rodriguez—Inside Facebook’s $10 Billion Breakup With Advertisers—shows that when it comes to restraining...
View ArticleThe Experience Gap
One way or another, we’re all in the experience creation biz, so it’s bracing to realize how bad we are at talking about actual experiences rather than memories. Back when I taught English Lit at U.C....
View ArticleElon Musk Still Doesn’t Want Twitter
Two weeks ago in Musk, Trump, Twitter, and New Media Math I argued that Elon Musk doesn’t really want to buy Twitter: he just wants to use the earned media to help him sell more Teslas. Then, on...
View ArticleThe Fragile Glory of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” plus… Why Apple is the...
Editor’s Notes: Two smaller stories this weekIf you like these posts, please subscribe to the newsletter version, which has lots of extra goodies and comes direct to your inbox.From the “I was right”...
View ArticleA Simple Test for What Counts as “The Metaverse”
Lots of walled gardens and videogame platforms are now touting themselves as part of the metaverse, but there’s an easy way to tell if it’s true. Plus, revising Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to...
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