PJ Vogt appears in the following:
Of Course You Can Tweet About Having Cancer
Monday, January 13, 2014
UPDATE: 12:37PM. Wow, The Guardian pulled the column. Cached copy is here. It could've been because of the content, or because of this. Guardian's notice just says that it was "inconsistent with the Guardian editorial code."
People are angry about a Guardian op-ed by Emma Keller titled: “Forget funeral selfies. What are the ethics of tweeting a terminal illness?”
A Good Year For Duck Duck Go, the Search Engine That Promises Privacy Protection
Friday, January 10, 2014
Last April, OTM producer Chris Neary profiled an upstart search engine called Duck Duck Go. DuckDuckGo’s selling point is that it promises its users that their privacy will be protected and that their results will be unfiltered.
Every Edit You've Ever Made to a Facebook Post Is Visible
Sunday, January 05, 2014
Anyone who can see your post can see a full history of its edits. All they have to do is click the gray text that reads "Edited" at the bottom of your comment, just to the left of the "Like" button.
Reviews that Are 100% Objective
Friday, January 03, 2014
Video game criticism is a weird beast.
Two Professors Search the Internet for Time Travelers
Thursday, January 02, 2014
It’s hard not to like this. Professors Robert J Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson published a study where they looked online for some sign that time travelers from the future are hiding among us, accidentally revealing themselves on the internet.
4.6 Million Snapchat Accounts Have Leaked And It's Actually Not That Important.
Thursday, January 02, 2014
4.6 million Snapchat usernames and their associated phone numbers were leaked this week. (If you use the service, there’re a few single serving sites where you can check to see if your information’s out there.)
Highlighting the Worst Internet Comments In All of England
Monday, December 30, 2013
Enjoying this list comes from perversity and from seeing what kind of absurd topics people can get worked into a lather about. Like being angry that survivors of a theater collapse weren't wearing coats.
An Iron Maiden Hoax Too Boring To Check
Monday, December 30, 2013
If you weren’t on the internet last week (apparently there were holidays) you might’ve missed this small story about Iron Maiden. A blog called citeworld wrote that the band was using data about where their music was most pirated in order to plan their tours.
How much is your privacy worth? About five bucks.
Friday, December 27, 2013
There’s a $16 billion market out there for app developers willing to offer consumers their privacy back.
Amazon’s War on Bigfoot Erotica
Friday, December 27, 2013
Not sure how I missed this last week, but there’s a nice piece by Eric Spitznagel about how monster erotica writers are struggling in the wake of a crackdown on their work by Amazon.
Happy Birthday
Friday, December 27, 2013
No, Facebook is Not Dying.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
In Case Anyone Forgot, Google is Still Very Powerful
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Bad PR
Friday, December 20, 2013
Justine Sacco does corporate communications for IAC, the parent company for Tinder, OkCupid, CollegeHumor, Dictionary.com, and Vimeo.
Why It's Silly to Make Rules About What Your Employees Can Say Online
Friday, December 20, 2013
In September, after the Navy Yard shooting, a journalism professor at Kansas University posted the following tweet:
An Instagram Photographer in North Korea
Thursday, December 19, 2013
This is just a public service announcement to make sure everyone’s following AP photographer David Guttenfelder on Instagram. Guttenfelder's feed is mostly photos from inside North Korea. He shoots using his iPhone, then uploads the pictures via North Korea’s visitors-only 3G network.
The Apple Ad Everyone's Crying About
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Apple has a new iPhone ad that's really an ad for the idea of smartphones.
That Bomb-Hoaxing Harvard Student Was Using Tor, But They Caught Him Anyway
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
The Weird Allure of Stories about Hypothetical Twitter and Facebook Changes
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Yesterday, blogger Matthew Keys published the kind of nerdy exclusive that excites a small percentage of geeks (present company included). Twitter, Keys wrote, was going to add an “edit” button in the near future.
