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SoCal UX Job Fair & Meetup
Nerd heaven: learning about the latest in UX while meeting killer startups On Sept. 17, I attended the latest SoCal UX group meetup in downtown Los Angeles, where 29o designers mingled with startups looking for talent, and honed their skills by learning about the...
Should Local News Be Marketed as “Infrastructure”?
Ken Doctor at Neiman's "Newsonomics" points out that the "self-asphyxiation" cycle is nearing endgame I cross-posted a response to this on Facebook, so if you've already seen it there from me, my apologies. But I've been watching the gradual descent of local news for...
Brainwashed User Confesses: “I Was a Human Bot-net for Klout”
When Hootsuite, the industry leader when it comes to managing social media profiles, removes a feature so essential to what community managers, social marketing execs and wanna-be YouTube stars are trying to do (i.e. identify & interact with “influencers” to thereby achieve business goals), then there is definitely Something Really Heavy going on behind the scenes.
Jiangsu Broadcasting learns about transmedia, social media and multimedia at Annenberg
So this happened: I got asked to help train a team of 25 bright, ambitious, clever & talented people from Jiangsu Broadcasting. I believe they are headquartered in Nanjing, and they were set loose in Los Angeles for 20 days (missing out on some big & important...
“Fairness over truth” – StopFake points out vulnerabilities in The View From Nowhere
Ukrainians fighting the Kremlin's propaganda machine release report on what they've learned While I've been regularly sharing, reposting and ReTweeting the efforts of my friends, colleagues and students in Ukraine over the past year and a half, I must admit that there...
How Big Data and Online Games Help Catch Scammers
I did a case study on this use of analytics technology more than a year ago. The gist of it is this: online MMPORGs like World of Warcraft, EVE, Everquest, etc., are wonderful tools whereby to study human interactions. Here's the gist: when you map the connections...