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Using Social Media Wisely
Twenty years ago, I might have told someone to refuse to listen to gossip, and to check any stories they did hear carefully. “You need to get to the source,” I would say. There’s a reason that Paul puts gossip on so many sin lists: It can tear up a church. But readers of this…
Using Twitter
I’ve been on twitter for a couple of weeks now, and I find that it’s very hard for me to do. I simply don’t think in the short form that’s required. Nonetheless, it appears to be a good way to build traffic, and also has high potential for building one’s network and getting (also sharing)…
Whodathunkit? Retweeting
There are right and wrong ways, as explained by Brian Carter.
Of Algorithms and News
I intensely dislike fake news or, for that matter, slanted news. I do believe that the term “fake news” should be limited to things that are totally made up, not things in which the reporting is slanted, or in which poor conclusions are drawn. People were and are justified in mistrusting the media. Personally, I…
Flaws of Facebook or Flaws of People?
I subscribe to Inside Higher Ed’s RSS feed, which delivered notice of an article by Alex Golub titled The Flaws of Facebook. Now while I’m going to react negatively to a portion of his work, there are some valid issues he’s addressing. If you’re a professor who might need to place more than one level…
Headlines are Critical!
Every day I scan around 500 headlines from news services and blog posts. Of these, I will likely take action on around 30 or 40, and many of those will be standard ones that I put into various tags to display on my own blogs. I am unlikely to read more than five or six….