1 Election, 31 Million Ways To See It
Forget must-see TV: The pundits who people paid attention to were a personal mix of Facebook friends, twitterers, bloggers and vloggers, with experts like Wolf Blitzer just one voice in the din. We were each listening to more voices, but fewer of the same voices.
Walking into my friends' apartment at 8 o'clock to watch the 2012 election results come in, not two, not three, not four, but five screens had been set up. A big-screen Panasonic TV was tuned to CNN. An iPad placed directly to its left was playing ABC. A laptop to the right showed NBC.
Has the use of Twitter provided an interactive stage to users who not only expect replies from their favorite celebrities, but who expect that any issue, criminal or personal, can be addressed, vented about or solved on Twitter?
With all the changes to Google many Internet gurus have predicted the end of SEO. Well, it's not the end per se, but rather a change from the way we used to market online.
If technology continues to evolve at the current rate, the 2015 workplace could look quite different from today's office spaces. From a company's hiring process to sharing knowledge with employees, technology has the ability to change the way we all work.
Even if we don't pay for using sites and service, free isn't free. The price of free is advertising -- and there are very few instances where advertising doesn't make the product worse.
The U.S. should continue to support electric vehicle and technology innovation because the economic and national security benefits of cleaner vehicles powered by affordable domestic electricity -- rather than foreign oil -- are too significant to ignore.
At the beginning of a second term for President Obama, it is time to move beyond the paranoid strategies for public safety that have dominated both Democratic and Republican presidencies.
Fall and winter, aka the holiday season, are when the game publishers pull out the big guns. Get ready for your wallet to get a great deal lighter. Here are the titles to look out for over the next few months.
When most people think of "disruption," they usually think of a single change that is disruptive. But in the games business today, the changes that are occurring are happening on four fundamental pillars of the business: distribution, product, marketing and pricing.
The 2012 US election was about many things, but first and foremost it was about growing the economy and creating jobs. With the campaign now over, the Obama Administration and incoming 113th Congress can accomplish both of those goals in the innovation-driven IT sector.
Tonight, Randi Zuckerberg will premiere her new Bravo reality TV show, Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, in which six geeky fledglings who also happen to be very nicely shaped try their hand at launching a tech company.
Voters used to be the ones obsessing over details of a candidate's personal life. Now the tables have turned. Campaigns research the personal lives of the voter.
Getting a voice on the ground isn't easy, especially when much of that ground is underwater. But, as a matter of journalistic ethics, accurate news is the most important during the worst circumstances.
I was never a dog person. They always reminded me of rabid game show contestants, their enthusiasm overshooting any given situation, be it a car, a refrigerator or a perfect stranger. Then came Holly.
The Mini has arrived and it's a big leap forward. Having used some of the other 7-inch tablets on the market I wasn't really excited when I heard Apple had decided to crowd the market with their version.
By engaging youth in important political discussions, we are cultivating a generation of more informed voters.
The IGF is a United Nations forum to discuss a wide variety of issues regarding Internet governance. Unlike many U.N. forums, IGF is attended not just by government officials but also by corporations, non-profit groups and scholars interested in how to handle content management on the global Internet.
Campaigns have entered the era of "Big Data" -- they target voters based on scraps of information they gather from unlikely places. Voters used to be the ones obsessing over details of a candidate's personal life. Now the tables have turned.
Jesse Miller, 2012. 7.11
