People give names to persons and things, and then suppose that if they know the names, they know that which the names refer to.
— Keiji Nishitani
Tag: Content
Inevitability of the trolls
Mat Honan wrote on Tuesday about Facebook, Inc.’s new augmented reality tools:
“Yes, someone can create a virtual painting, meant to beautify the city, or leave a virtual note to a loved one that reaches them at just the right moment, in just the right place. But someone else will probably leave a swastika. Because if there is anything to be learned about the modern internet, it is that if you build it, the Nazis will come.”
Juice Machines and Red Flags, April 22, 2017, at 08:23 AM
Facebook & the Media
Facebook’s advertising, though, doesn’t just run against journalism and other professionally produced content: it runs against baby pictures, small businesses, cooking videos and everything in between. Facebook may be everything to the media, but the media is one of many types of content on Facebook.
Stratechery Daily Update 2017-01-12, January 23, 2017 at 12:33PM
Use my marker 