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
I’m at UC Boulder this morning at a conference organized by friend and colleague Nathan Schneider. He’s a professor of media studies who has done… Read More »Local Tech Ecologies: Fernanda Rosa on decolonizing technology
Why do you live where you live? If you’re like most Americans, your family may have chosen where you live. The typical American lives 18… Read More »From Phoenix to Cleveland: why we live where we live and why it’s time to change
On July 6th, Facebook (note 1) launched Threads, their new messaging microblogging system built on top of Instagram… in other words, their Twitter killer. Within… Read More »Competition for Twitter is good. Threads, thus far, is not.