Category: Media

  • Post-Twitter Twitterverse

    Post-Twitter Twitterverse

    Some impressions on the ongoing conversational vibes in various Twitter-ish services in their current iterations (i.e. Jul 2023): Threads feels like Twitter around 2020.…Vibrant with celebs, influencers, politicos, etc strategically shouting for attention in all media formats. The Twitterverse that attracted money and power interests.…That’s what the massive network scale achieves, which Instagram did effortlessly…

  • On AI-assisted Writing

    [Note: This is a guideline I wrote at the start of the recent semester, for the classes I teach. I’m sure there will be other people who want some concrete ideas on how to cope with tools like that (beyond open mantras such as “use it as a tool, wisely”), so here’s a start.] In-house…

  • Clean Slate

    Thinking about doing something with this media space. After all that’s said and done, ebbed and flowed in the digital media environment, the foundational constant is not the platform service; it is still the personal publishing space that can be connected to the outside world via protocols. I always used the analogy of the constantly…