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"Pity Marketing" is having a moment. Multiple reports have surfaced of people sharing tales of woe, mostly on the X (formerly Twitter) social network, leading many who see…
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Prosecraft was a useful site for wanna-be fiction writers. It violated no copyright rules and did nothing that should have been upsetting to authors whose works were included…
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Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney made headlines when they bought the Wrexham Association Football Club. Since then they have poured cash into the team and applied…
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In 1995, MIT Media Lab Director Nicholas Negroponte predicted “The Daily Me,” a digital newspaper that would feature articles that aligned with the interests of each individual reader,…
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Longtime FIR listener (and one-time contributor) Bernie Goldbach asked Neville and Shel how they find quality conversations. That opened up a discussion about sources of information for staying…
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AI rewrote 50 of the best-known brand slogans, and survey respondents preferred the AI version 48 percent of the time — even Apple’s “Think Different” slogan fell to…
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Meta’s Threads, a new micro-blogging platform, is now available to anyone with an Instagram account — no invite codes or waitlists required — and there has been no…
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In the world of influencers, brands pay for influencers to say what the brands want them to say. In the case of Shein, what they wanted them to…
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All the signs are there, according to observers. As one tech publication put it, “Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to…
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The hype around the metaverse rises and falls, but Second Life is 20 years old and continues to draw users and make money. Neville and Shel explore the…
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