So soon after I wrote this, 2018 is already off to a bit of a nutter start. Cryptocurrency craziness The cryptocurrency market is already coming to a head. We have known that the lack of regulation would come to a head, and soon. It’s heating up quickly, as the last days of 2017 and first […]
Let’s do a 2017 wrap up. It’s so in the moment. In tech, 2017 belonged to 2 things, for me. Not Facebook & Google, or Foogle, or Googbook or whatever the fuck people are calling the media monopoly. Not even close. One: Uber Damned, but this year was Uber’s year. And not in a good […]
You know, it’s been a while since I last posted. And it’s been hard to get this moving again. Partly as I’ve been busy, but also that there’s a lot going on – but none of it particularly inspiring me to write. Harvey Weinstein, Uber leading the headlines for sexual assault. Gender politics, citizenship politics […]
I think it’s time to note down in words an idea that began a few years ago (so probably around 2010-2011), spoken about in lunches and meetings where a few souls, sitting on the edge of the precipice of publishing as the decline started to really take hold. A few of us were there – […]
I am not sure whether there’s anything more that can be added to the Uber discussion. So I’m not going to. The conversation has already shifted away from trashy executive behaviour and individual maturity into a bigger, much more interesting space. This leads out of the antitrust ruling against Google to the tune of €2.4 […]
This is the second part to my look into the maturing innovation technology industry. Part 1 here, in which I freaked out about Uber, and the general lack of maturity in innovation leadership. In the time between that first post a few weeks ago and now, of course Uber has been through more. Driverless car crashed in […]
What has Wikileaks done now? Yesterday (7 March, 2017), Wikileaks released an absolute treasure trove of CIA secret misdeeds, misinformation, technical knowhow, surveillance capability and much more juicy stuff. I’m not going to go into the politics, rights/wrongs or even whether it’s real or not (independent experts are leaning to ‘yes’). There are many others […]
The Uber circus has been in full swing lately. The resignation of a high level executive due to lack of disclosure around sexual harrassment, the disturbing picture of an embedded harrassment culture there, to the quite powerful lawsuit that Google’s Waymo is swinging against Uber, to the video of their CEO Travis Kalanick acting like […]
It hasn’t been a good election for Facebook. Some months ago they faced accusations of bias against Conservatives, then got caught spreading fake news after they replaced their human editors with an algorithm. And after the results, were accused of having (possibly unduly) influenced the result by being an easy way to spread fake news and generate […]
Last Friday, it was revealed that Facebook had fired its “Trending Editors” team, who looked after its trending news feed (kinda obvious from the name?), and had only recently been in the news under accusations of bias from the Conservatives in the US. It also comes fairly soon after Facebook rolled out its sections and […]
Where Dragons Dwell 