Mastodon and the fediverse are clearly taking off, bringing in millions of new users, and also organically inspiring a wave of technical innovation that dwarfs...
If a company is debating whether a user's account should be suspended, they've already failed to build a modern platform that follows best practices. Why are...
About seven years ago, inspired by Caterina Fake's seminal essay about fear of missing out , I wrote a bit about the Joy of Missing Out , and for a little...
At this point, there's nothing novel about noticing that social media is often toxic and stressful. But even aside from those concerns, our social networks are...
I’ve been fortunate enough to get to speak at a lot of events over the years, in front of an amazing variety of audiences around the world. But I can honestly...
It’s always great to reconnect with old friends, and that especially holds true for old Internet friends. That must be why it was such a delight to spend some...
More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have...
There are lots of conversations that I have over and over, one-at-a-time on social media like Twitter that I wish was captured more definitively. Fortunately,...
Toward the end of every year, as people are thinking of making donations to charities either as an act of goodwill, or to help reduce their tax burden, or both,...
It’s always nice when an idea has a little bit of staying power. A few weeks ago, Yahoo Health featured a piece about 8 Ways to Embrace JOMO , a reference to...
We don’t do nearly enough to examine what it means when we perform common actions on our social networks. These aren’t just guttural, reflexive responses! They...
I had the chance to interview Steve Case for Social Media Week the other day, and though it was a brief conversation, I was really pleased with how it went....