Ethan

How big is YouTube? I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”. A great deal… Read More »How Big is YouTube?

I’m just back from a very quick trip to Rio de Janiero to take part in a conference put together by dear friend and colleague… Read More »Disinfo and Elections in the Global Majority

Kai-Cheng Yang is the creator of Botometer, which was – until 2023 – the state of the art for bot detection on Twitter. He’s a… Read More »Kai-Cheng Yang: The Social Bots are Coming…

One of my favorite things in academia is that you can go a decade without seeing a friend and remain at least somewhat in touch… Read More »Heather Ford: Is the Web Eating Itself? LLMs versus verifiability

It’s chilly here in western MA and there’s a hint of red starting to show in the leaves. This was the second full week of… Read More »What I Did On My Summer Vacation: 2023

Much of the Local Tech Ecology conference is a series of lightning talks at the Local Tech Ecologies conference at CU Boulder. Some short notes… Read More »Lightning Talks at CU Boulder Local Tech Economies