Year: 2024
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Digital Walls: Boundaries in the Evolution of the Public Square
Imagine a modern Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, London, a public square that traditionally is a symbol of free speech and public discourse, now surrounded by towering walls made of digital screens displaying algorithmically-generated content. Individuals inside the walls are…
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The Future of Online Search: A Closer Look at Perplexity AI
When I search online for the most relevant, comprehensive, and accurate information I’m looking for, I find it’s typically a hit-or-miss procedure. Traditional search engines will give you results but heavily weighted to sponsored listings or paid ads, thus making…
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Unmet Expectations with iContact
Updated 18 March 2024. Not long after I posted my late-January update, I learned from iContact Support that they and DHL had concluded that my package had been “lost in UK customs.” I engaged in an email discussion with iContact…
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FIR at 19: A Milestone in Podcasting
Nineteen years ago this past week, Shel Holtz and I founded and launched the For Immediate Release podcast. Back then, podcasting was in its infancy and we began a journey at a time when it was more of an experiment…
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Key Themes in my Writing Agenda for 2024
During the Christmas/New Year break, as I considered what topics I might explore in this blog in 2024, I reflected back to remind myself of what I’ve been writing about in 2023. Given the blog’s broad embrace of being “at…