4-day week campaign
For the last couple months I've been working on a project that went live this week: a new campaign to build interest in the 4-day week. It's now
It’s ALMOST like the problem isn’t just technical: Contractors target homeless people and BET awards in quest for more non-white faces
As anyone following the state of facial recognition and other automated identification systems knows, these systems suffer from bias problems: some have trouble recognizing facial features or detecting
“he failed to do [his job] because he was distracted by tweeting”
So the next time you think you can handle checking your email while driving, think back to the 2016 Oscars when La La Land was incorrectly announced as
“Exploitation is encoded into the systems we are building”
Writer and artist James Bridle has a long, but rather amazing and disturbing, piece arguing that "Something is wrong on the internet." Specifically he's talking about how kids'
On the growth of zombie departments
When I was an undergraduate at Penn, one of the graduate students I met was an historian of American technology named Deborah Fitzgerald. Later, when I taught American
Was digital distraction responsible for the Oscar gaffe?
Sounds like it could have been, according to Variety: Brian Cullinan, one of the two PriceWaterhouseCoopers partners who handled the Oscar envelopes on Sunday night, was tweeting photos
16 hours a month on Facebook is the new normal
A new study by Comscore of Americans’ social media network use in 2015 reveals that people over 35 spend an average of 22 hours a month on social
Interview with ABC Sunshine Coast on technology and distraction
A couple days ago I was interviewed on ABC Sunshine Coast's morning show about technology and distraction. You can now listen to the interview on Soundcloud: For a
You can’t get away: Twitter creates “While You Were Away” feature
So much for taking a digital sabbath and getting away from your timeline. Tech Crunch reports: Back in November, Twitter announced plans to implement a number of new
How smartphones are (and are not) like knives
Perhaps an odd question to ask in an age of Grindr and Tinder, but still: this morning's KQED Forum took it on. Presumably the audio will be online in