“Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral”: https://amzn.to/41zXBPb This is not the book I thought it would be. And I don’t advise you read it. I don’t see why anybody would read it. I thought it would be an insight into virality, how something spreads in today’s marketplace. Instead, it’s […]

“Ticketmaster’s Dark History – A 40 year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam”: https://bit.ly/3Wf2ICE This is what happens when reporters tell a story. They may get the facts right but they miss the essence. And not all the facts are right. This is a tale from thirty years ago, […]

This isn’t about social media, this is about authoritarianism. This is what happens when one person has too much power and exercises it willy-nilly. Not only can no one stop him (or her!), a good percentage of the population supports them. That’s right, Elon Musk is now a hero to the right. Which is kind […]

“Elon Musk Reinstates Trump’s Twitter Account – Mr. Musk, who had run a poll on Twitter about whether to bring back the former president to the service, said, ‘The people have spoken.’”: https://nyti.ms/3Gu1A9e That was then and this is now. Donald Trump was a disrupter. He said the unsayable. He broke norms. He rallied people […]