Tag: social media

  • “Attention capitalism”?

    This was an interesting essay. Just a quote from the beginning of a quite long article behind a payment wall: “I try to hold people’s attention for a living. For more than 13 years, I’ve been hosting a cable news show, and when I’m not doing that, I spend a lot of time alternating between…

  • The kindness of the internet..

    The Internet started out as a fairly friendly and generous medium. As time has gone by, it has become increasingly hard and demanding. Not the Internet as such, of course, but its users, operators and exploiters. Of which I am one. It feels necessary to take a break every now and then. To try yourself,…

  • Will Youtube be blocked in Russia? A personal reflection

    With english subtitles. There are rumors that Youtube will soon be blocked in Russia, which doesn’t seem unlikely. Last year in the month of Mars Facebook and Instagram as well as Twitter was blocked. But Youtube has created some kind of problem for legislators in the State governed by the Putin regime. There are 90…