Meme 2020 and the Inevitable Rise of Creator FederationsSometime around 3pm EST, a group of some of the most popular meme pages on Instagram dropped a series of posts.Feb 14, 2020Feb 14, 2020
Conductor Social NetworksA framework for thinking about an emergent kind of social network online and some hope on what to build nextJun 12, 2019A response icon4Jun 12, 2019A response icon4
Yelling fire in a crowded theater and never getting caughtOne of the fundamental caveats of free speech is intent to harm with a knowingly false statement of fact. You are perfectly able to shout…Mar 7, 2019Mar 7, 2019
TBH and the social media Death ValleyRemember TBH? The anonymous compliment app? At it’s peak last year, TBH was getting 2.5m daily active users and had over a billion poll…Jul 9, 2018A response icon1Jul 9, 2018A response icon1
Zuck The Conqueror to Zuck the GovernorI’m about two thirds of my way through “Conspiracy,” Ryan Holiday’s book about Peter Thiel and Gawker, when I read a page where I had to…Apr 3, 2018Apr 3, 2018
The Death and Life of a Global Web PlatformWe’re living in an era of the web where a wide group of people who built the web are coming to the same conclusion. Facebook executives who…Jan 4, 2018A response icon4Jan 4, 2018A response icon4
How to lose $8k worth of bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.comIt begins with a text message from VerizonMay 31, 2017A response icon165May 31, 2017A response icon165
Anyone want to join a bookclub inside VR?I’ve spent quite a number of hours in social VR experiences in the past six months. AltspaceVR, VRChat, Sports Bar VR and Rec Room are some…Mar 9, 2017Mar 9, 2017
There are so many big lessons we can learn from The Void about how to sell VRThis has been a rough few weeks for VR. Sales are lower than expected, some developers are turning, and then this brutal headline dropped…Feb 16, 2017A response icon2Feb 16, 2017A response icon2
Our politics won’t change until we move on from TwitterI tweeted something this week I shouldn’t have. Sometime around 2am, I saw a thread about a prominent American Trump supporter whose geotag…Feb 8, 2017A response icon6Feb 8, 2017A response icon6
