Just a quick note to journalists covering the #MuslimBan: You are letting the day-to-day minutia distract you from the real story. Remember what the original Executive Order said? Let me remind you: When the original ban was first announced back on January 28, 2017, it was to block travel from…

As a media analyst, life on Twitter these days is difficult. There is so much negativity, so much bigotry, hatred, abuse, racism, and outright insanity. As someone tweeted a few days ago: “Social media has been destroyed by Trump.” And he is right. It has. At least for us working…

Did you see this news story from earlier this week? As comedy writer Simon Blackwell put it: “What the fuck has happened to us?” You know what’s happening here? We are now just one step away, as another comedian put it, from “forcing certain people to wear a special armband…

Not a day goes by these days without yet another story of a male executive making sexist remarks about women, their role in society and their abilities. And when I say male executive, I really mean old white males who are in a position of power. Today we came across…

Here is a weird little thing to think about. How big is the New York City really? How big is any city? Well, we could take out a map and measure the geographic space that it occupies. This will tell you that New York City is about 789 km² when…

Earlier this week, Jessica Guynn, Silicon Valley reporter from USA Today tweeted: The problem, however, is that this isn’t what we hear from the Instagrammers. Instead, I am hearing from Instagrammers that they are having a harder time with engagement overall. So how can we have these two very…

The big news today, of course, is that Hillary Rodham Clinton has been nominated for President by the Democrats. This marks the first time in US history that a major political party has a female leader. …

There is a fascinating thing happening in our world today, in that we are in the middle of the transformation between the disconnected and the connected. And it has a serious impact on the short term future of our political focus. If we look at all the latest elections (across…

The always amazing Derek Muller, from Veritasium, recently published a great explainer video about how we are all susceptible to “cognitive ease”. Cognitive ease is the concept of which when you hear something repeatedly, your brain starts to form connections around it, thus making it easier for you to process…