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General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, have overhauled how businesses process and handle data. Our need-to-know GDPR guide explains what the changes mean for you

Regulation and antitrust trials are pulling down the walls.

Once scholars agonised for years over additions to language. Now, online dictionaries enable instant updates

We've always loved to gawk at others, but what's it like when the tables are turned and all eyes are on you?

The EU pilot for the fediverse comes to an end, but the European Commission will stay on the fediverse; Ghost announces that they will support ActivityPub and build a fediverse news reading client, and Mastodon creates a U.S.-based non-profit.

If you’re new around here, I’ll let you in on a little secret: I love building shortcuts. I have 579 of them in my personal library at the moment,

"The question isn't about social media being friend or foe, but whether we're watching journalism's suicide by a thousand tweets."

Journalists have transferred some of their own power over the presentation of current events to Twitter by normalizing the ways tweets are presented in news stories.

Everyone knows Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube make money by keeping users engaged. Why won’t their executives admit it to Congress?

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Social audio is having a moment. A big moment. We’re seeing an explosion of players in the space: up to 30 at analyst and thought leader Jeremiah Owyang’s last count, and soon to be over 100. Owyang is an analyst at Kaleido Insights, and shared his data on the emerging space on his personal site, […]

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In 2016 the LinkedIn breach data became available to the public. What the Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers did with it then is quite the story.

Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.

Literary Lingo While serving in World War II, Joseph Heller concluded that war was a farce in which anyone crazy enough to shirk combat was considered sane enough to fight. That became the theme of…

Presented by Document Journal and Ray-Ban this new series chronicles the rich history of dance music in Detroit through the stories of five pioneering artists.

When a book passes into the public domain, it means not only that it’s available for adapting and remixing, but for reprinting and reselling with a brand new cover. Some of these covers are .…

“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”

As a part of my ongoing 20 Macs for 2020 project, I’ve been releasing weekly podcast episodes featuring the voices of a bunch of people I know discussing the Macs I’ve placed on my list…

Comparison chart of iPad and iPhone (iOS) text editing applications.

Developer, writer, CEO (Postlight)